Blog entries about climate change
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) issued ninety disaster and emergency declarations in 2022, and 114 in 2023.[1] So far in 2024, FEMA has issued 100 such declarations—and we still have four-and-a-half months to go, including much of the hurricane season. Fifty-eight of these emergency declarations have been for severe Read more…
The Brooks Range is a sparsely populated mountain range located north of the Arctic Circle in northern Alaska and northwestern Canada. Named for geologist Alfred Hulse Brooks in 1925, these mountains stretch about 700 miles from west to east. The rugged Dalton Highway, which runs from near Fairbanks to Deadhorse Read more…
Ice in the Arctic is receding by about ten percent every ten years due to climate change as well as the fact that the Arctic is warming faster than the Earth as a whole. That spells disaster for polar bears, which live exclusively in the Arctic and are now considered Read more…
In Chapter 11 of my first book, Beyond Blind Faith, I wrote about how climate change could disrupt the ocean currents which keep Great Britain’s relatively mild climate from becoming like Russia. Here’s what I said then: About 13,000 – 14,000 years ago, after several thousand years of retreating and Read more…
Recent cutbacks in oil exports by Saudi Arabia and Russia. The war in Ukraine. War between Israel and Hamas. Unrest in the Middle East. These are the primary factors that are causing oil prices to rise, which in turn causes gasoline prices to increase. The law of supply and demand Read more…
What if we could increase marine food sources for people while also fighting climate change and preserving—or even increasing—marine biodiversity?[1] That is what Enric Sala, a marine ecologist, wants to do, and it appears to work. Sala wants to set aside approximately 30 percent of the most biodiverse ocean and Read more…
When I wrote about climate change in my first book, Beyond Blind Faith, I talked about the danger climate change poses through the spread of diseases, which is one of the “birth pangs” Jesus talked about in Luke 21:10-11.[1] But climate change also poses health threats resulting from excessive heat, Read more…
Torrential rains and flooding in Vermont and northern New York State. Out-of-control wildfires in Canada. Scorching temperatures in the American Southwest that exceed 110 degrees and could reach 119 degrees in places. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, from 1980 to 2022 an average of 8.1 weather events Read more…
If you are reasonably healthy and get infected by the bacteria vibrio vulnificus you have an 80% chance of survival—which of course means a 20% of dying from the infection.[1] If you have a weakened immune system, your chances of survival drop to about 50%. But don’t worry, because there Read more…
The Mata Atlantica was a rain forest that once covered 15% of Brazil along its eastern coast. But 93% of that rain forest is now gone—stripped of its trees to make way for farmland. In 1985, native vegetation covered 76% of Brazil. Last year that figure was only 66%. Rain Read more…