Climate Change

The harvest moon is such an eerie orange color this year. πŸŒ•

Every year I get a bit creeped out by the dull skies and the bright orange moon that sometimes happens when smoke from the Western Wildfires drifts east.

The harvest moon is such an eerie orange color this year. πŸŒ•

While all the activist types are pontificating about their electronic cars and solar panels, the planet continues to bake as more and more carbon becomes part of the atmosphere. Denialism is as popular on the left as on the right. We’re told we should be scared for the future but not today, yet it’s tossed around more and more just about virtue signaling and green consumerism and patronage then any real solution.

Myself I’m increasingly alarmed as I see where this is going. I wish I could find ways to be more resilient and protective of my own life by owning land and equipment to protect it. Because I’m not at all convinced government is going to protect us from climate change and waiting on government for a hand out after a disaster is a very risky proposition. Sometimes the politicians help but often they dodge responsibility with red tape.

NPR

Heat wave sends temperatures to 120F in South Asia : NPR

MUMBAI, India — Summer has arrived in South Asia WAY too early.

A punishing heat wave has pushed temperatures past 120F (50C) in some areas. Some schools have closed early for the summer. Dozens of people have people have died of heat stroke.

The region is already hard-hit by climate change. Extreme heat is common in May. But not in April and March, both of which were the hottest across much of India for more than a century.

"It's smoldering hot! It's also humid, which is making it very difficult," Chrisell Rebello, 37, told NPR in line outside a Mumbai ice cream parlor at 11 p.m. "We need a lot of cold drinks, air conditioning – and multiple baths a day."