What’s an ordinary citizen to believe?
Climatology
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Bush is not looking at the big world
I own a house on a beach in the Bahamas. It’s a great place to hole up and write. No heat, no air conditioning, no television. Warmed by the sun, cooled by breezes, entertained by sunrises and sunsets.
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Bahamas on front line for sea-level changes
One can be forgiven for being nervous about global warming if virtually your entire country lies only a few feet above sea level. As ocean water warms, it expands, and sea level rises. Also, a warming climate melts continental ice, further increasing the volume of the sea.
“Consulting the Oracle” by John William Waterhouse (1884)
The Oracle is no match for El Niño
SCENE: The temple of Apollo at Delphi. The Oracle stands at the porch. Boston weathercasters Bruce Schwoegler, Harvey Leonard, and Dick Albert approach.
John Tenniel's illustration of Alice meeting Tweedledum and Tweedledee
A very strange place, indeed
“Goodness,” thought Alice to herself, “what a very strange place this is.”
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Telltale swimmers in the sand
Sahara! Rolling dunes, sun-bleached rocks. Camels and date palm oases. Salt caravans and shimmering mirages. Bedouins in flowing robes. The hidden city of Timbuktu. The French Foreign Legion.
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3 hours of sun means a fine Irish day
It had rained in sheets for 40 days and 40 nights.
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Could the Martians have taken it?
Nothing puzzles environmental scientists more than the case of the missing carbon. No current mystery of science has so many potentially unpleasant consequences for the rest of us.
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Can the world survive the daisy-tramplers?
What a winter! The snow shovel never came out of the shed until after St. Paddy’s Day. A few swipes with a broom was almost all it took to keep the driveway and walks clear.
Packrat midden at Joshua Tree National Park • Photo by Robb Hannawacker (Public Domain)
Meaningful messes
Packrats pack. Paleontologists unpack. Out in the deserts of the American West paleontologists unpack packrats’ packs.