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Hottest and driest March on record

Posted on April 4, 2016 by

How many more records need to be broken before leaders start to follow such convincing lead set by climate science, the science “we don’t dispute”?   >more> BOM(Bureau Meteorology

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El Niño is here and that means droughts, but they don’t work how you might think

Posted on October 6, 2015 by

“With an El Niño looming large this summer…at some point you’ll hear someone say that warmer temperatures are making drought worse. This is guaranteed to cause confusion because it’s not actually how droughts work…Most believe it’s a simple equation: rainfall goes down … Continue reading →

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80% of America’s drones may soon be toiling for farms – and the environment

Posted on September 18, 2015 by

3. Drones monitor fertilizer runoff… up to 50% is never absorbed by crops, leading to air and water pollution. It also affects a farmer’s pocket book; fertilizers account for about half of what farmers spend on fields….Drone sensors can create imagery indicating … Continue reading →

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New Research Warns Of Catastrophic Food Shortages Due To Unchecked Climate Change

Posted on June 25, 2015 by

…global warming and related extreme weather will combine to create devastating food price shocks in coming decades, with potential for corn prices to increase a staggering 500% by 2030…As for political impacts, those are a straightforward extension of what’s already happened. … Continue reading →

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UN War on Golf Heats Up

Posted on April 2, 2015 by

Only in America…perhaps a  poorly-executed parody of Texas Senate candidate Ted Cruz’s (R) right-wing beliefs if Cruz had not posted it on his own website, the Tea Party stalwart touts a truly ridiculous conspiracy theory about George Soros…Agenda 21 attempts to abolish … Continue reading →

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Drought Is Causing U.S. Beef Prices To Skyrocket

Posted on June 17, 2013 by

Last year’s drought was so extreme that beef cattle herds are smallest herds since 1952. Rate of recovery is slow because cycle time is 4 years birth to slaughter. Cattle feed has more than doubled in price because of increasing … Continue reading →

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Rod Quantock’s “Wonderful World of Climate Change”

Posted on March 12, 2013 by

Rod has always been a hero of environmental perception and conscience. Here’s his particularly black humour to express what we have to look forward to. You need to sit down for this performance by our most powerful stand up performer. … Continue reading →

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Extreme thirst of coal fired power

Posted on February 10, 2013 by

Do we need to pipeline desal water to cool coal fired power stations, to make power for desal plant!?!? A typical coal-fired power plant can consume up to 11 million gallons of water to operate each day. During the 2011 … Continue reading →

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