HELL AND HIGH WATER GLOBAL WARMING – THE SOLUTION AND THE POLITICS – AND WHAT WE SHOULD DO JOSEPH J. ROMM WILLIAM MORROW 2007 PART II Chapter 3: 2025-2050: Planetary Purgatory (continued) The four (potential) sources of the apocalypse For the past few decades, nearly 60% of the carbon dioxide that we have …
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2010 Diary week 26 Global warming, climate change and weather extremes Book Review Part II of the review of Hell and High Water: Global Warming – the Solution and the Politics – and What We Should Do by Joseph J. Romm will be posted shortly. These are some snippets: “Sea-level rise of 20 to 80 …
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HELL AND HIGH WATER GLOBAL WARMING – THE SOLUTION AND THE POLITICS – AND WHAT WE SHOULD DO JOSEPH J. ROMM WILLIAM MORROW 2007 PART I Introduction The widespread confusion about our climate crisis is no accident. For more than a decade, those who deny that climate change is an urgent problem have …
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THE IMPACT OF LIFE LONG LEARNING ON MY LIFE Introduction The title of this conference is “50+ adaptation to life changes” and it is part of an EU-funded Life Long Learning Programme. This presentation is called “The Impact of Life Long Learning on My Life” because I worked for 25 years at the American Farm …
2010 Diary week 24 Participation in workshop “50+ adaptation to a life change” From 31st May to 6th June Christine and I participated in a Grundtvig Seminar/Workshop “50+ adaptation to a life change”. The workshop was an EU sponsored Lifelong Learning Programme organised by Kolping College and took place in Troškūnai, Lithuania. David presented a …
THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT HAROLD BERNARD HARPER COLOPON BOOKS 1980 PART III Chapter 12: The Ultimate Pollutant (Continued) Alaskan camels We might have to rely on the 125,000-year-old indications to get a feel for what the CO2-fostered climate of 2030 to 2040 may be like on a global scale. A climatic warming of 4 or 5ºF …
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2010 Diary week 23 Global warming, climate change and weather extremes Participation in workshop “50+ adaptation to a life change” From 31st May to 6th June Christine and I participated in a Grundtvig Seminar/Workshop “50+ adaptation to a life change”. The workshop was an EU sponsored Lifelong Learning Programme organised by Kolping College and took …
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THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT HAROLD BERNARD HARPER COLOPON BOOKS 1980 PART II Chapter 4: The Return of the Dust Bowl (Continued) Wheat, rust, and prickly pears Wheat is the second most important US grain and comprises about 17% of our total grain production. There are seven different monthly mean precipitation and temperature variables that significantly influence …
2010 Diary week 22 Global warming and food production Book Review Part II of The Greenhouse Effect points out that “During the dust bowl days the average July temperature in western Kansas, the nation’s largest wheat-producing region, rose from 79ºF to 82ºF. July precipitation diminished 57%.” “Much of the irrigation in the wheat belt comes …
THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT HAROLD BERNARD HARPER COLOPON BOOKS 1980 PART I Introduction Before the end of the next four decades, easily within the lifespans of many of us, the climate of the earth may be warmer than at any time in the past thousand years. By the middle of the next century, within the lifetimes …
