This story addresses the growing realization among farmers that the environment is changing. They may not yet be willing to attribute those changes to global warming but they are starting to understand that they need to adapt.
From the story ...
Category: "Politics"
What if indeed. How many times has humankind created a worse world for nothing? Perhaps we should try something else. From the Lexington Herald Leader - Joel Pett: The cartoon seen 'round the world.
Source: Lexington Herald Leader
The image below is sourced from an article in the The Guardian entitled "Climate strikes: hoax photo accusing Australian protesters of leaving rubbish behind goes viral". The article is not really about the physical garbage in the picture. It is about the digital garbage spread out by pro-coal global warming deniers.
Source: The Guardian
Apparently the philosophy is: If you can't make your point with facts, then resort to lies.
In case you hadn't noticed, our country's progress on addressing global warming, at least on the federal level, has stalled. Or more accurately, it has shifted into reverse.
There are a number of possible motives for this regression ...
This is the congressionally-mandated 2019 report from DOD on potential averse effects on critical military facilities. You can read the full report here: defense.gov.
Source: MilitaryTimes
The Pentagon did not assess all of its installations, instead it selected “79 mission assurance priority installations based on their operational role”.
Of those 79 installations, which included Army, Air Force and Navy installations, the services reported that 53 of the 79 faced current threats from flooding; 43 of the 79 face current threats from drought and 36 of the 79 faced current threats from wildfires.
The Pentagon takes climate change seriously.