Last year around this time I posted over two days two blogs, the first about the hurricanes that were wreaking destruction along our Gulf Coast and the second about the wildfires that were ravaging not only our West Coast but forest areas around the globe, even in Siberia and the Arctic. Today our Gulf coast is again being devastated by hurricanes and our West Coast is again an inferno, and not only our West Coast: This year wildfires have raged in forest area outside Marseilles, France; ...in Andalucia, Spain; ... in southern Greece; ...in Australia. The Amazon wildfires are surging worse than last year. Wildfires are still burning in Siberia. The Arctic is burning like never before. According to the NASA earth observatory, "Following an active 2019 season, fires in 2020 have again been abundant, widespread, and have produced abnormally large carbon emissions." And so, as this year's natural disasters wrought by climate change are merely a continuation of last year's and the year before's - except that this year the misery for those hit by these fires and hurricanes is worsened by the additional misery of the COVID -19 pandemic - I've decided to repost here those two posts from last year, "Apocalypse Now: Hurricanes and Floods" and "Apocalypse Now: Fires." Hence today's blog is a little longer than usual. But maybe you have the time. APOCALYPSE NOW: HURRICANES AND FLOODS |
"Tropical Depression"
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April 2025
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