“Gobsmackingly Bananas” is how one climate scientist described the global September 2023 temperature rise, which hit a new record by an enormous margin. The tropical Pacific Ocean is also switching from the climate event known as La Nina to an El Nino climate event, which will bring an even hotter and drier climate over the…
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Eunice Newton Foote, an American scientist, was the first to discover the gas CO2
Eunice Newton Foote, an American scientist, was the first to discover the gas CO2 can have a heating effect on the planet. She did this by filling glass jars with different amounts of water vapor, carbon dioxide, and air. She compared how much they heated up in the sun, and then presented her data to…
2022 September 27th Photo shows the Comox Glacier continues to melt
Anybody reading headlines recently will see that drought is a serious problem, from China’s Yangtze River, to the formerly “Mighty Colorado,” in the USA. Right now, we see the second largest freshwater delta in the world, the Peace-Athabasca in Alberta — is drying out. Here in the Comox Valley, the news is the same….
Comox Glacier 2022 Ice Loss
Anybody reading headlines recently will see that drought is a serious problem, from China’s Yangtze River, to the formerly “Mighty Colorado,” in the USA. Right now, we see the second largest freshwater delta in the world, the Peace-Athabasca in Alberta — is drying out. Here in the Comox Valley, the news is the same. Although…
Adopting: The Personal Carbon Cap or PCC
Adopting: The Personal Carbon Cap or PCC I want to start with these numbers and graphs from the Mauna Loa observatory in Hawaii. One graph shows the CO2 increase from 2016 to 2020, and the other one shows the increase from 1960 to 2020. You are all probably quite familiar with these graphs and measurements…
The No/Fly Movement
Whether you’re on the ground supporting the no-fly movement, or because of COVID-19 your travel life has been a little odd over the last couple of years – maybe you found different or other things to do. Perhaps you discovered a kind of recreation that wasn’t available to previous generations in times of lockdown or…
