Wind Turbine in Texas Causes--You Guessed It--Global Warming

More global warming news: a volcanic eruption in Tonga in mid-January apparently released a record-setting amount of water vapor into the atmosphere, and this will contribute to global warming. Usually, a volcanic eruption cools the global climate for a few months or years when clouds of dust reduce and reflect the suns rays. In this case, the high heat capacity of the water vapor will absorb and store energy from sunlight. The water vapor was launched 8-33 miles into the atmosphere (mostly above the altitude of normal clouds), which means that we shouldn't expect it to return to earth as rain anytime soon.

Tonga volcano blasted unprecedented amount of water into atmosphere

If my calculations are correct, that's about 1.5 billion tons of water. One teragram is a trillion grams, or 10 billion kg, or 10 million metric tons, times 146 = 1.46 billion metric tons.

 

More global warming news: higher water temperatures in Florida mean that all sea turtles born in the state will be female. So, if any of the posters on this forum are male sea turtles (or identify as male sea turtles), move to Florida, because you are about to get lucky.

Global heating means almost every sea turtle in Florida now born female

 

Not every place in the U.S. was originally covered in trees when industry gets their hands on it. For many places, the trees were removed in the 1800's for firewood for home heating and cooking. (I think it was Ben Franklin who complained toward the end of his life that he was having to get firewood brought in from a hundred miles away because there were no trees within that distance of Philadelphia.) Some places are just not well-suited for trees (they may be better suited for grasslands, for example).

There is no reason that I can think of for a farm to re-plant trees when they finish using the land as a farm, especially if they are going to sell it to an energy company which will use it as a solar farm. Besides, farmers do not have the kind of wealth that major corporations have. (And in some cases, the corporations may be hiding something by putting trees on the land after they tear down their factory or backfill their mines.)

 

That depends on the font, doesn't it? Texans use a BIG FONT to help with their literacy issues. I think Alaskans are too busy trying to survive grizzly bear attacks at -44 F in the eternal darkness of winter to worry about reading and writing.

 

I thought it was a pretty good post for 3:30 a.m.!

 

Not so fast. Alaska is rapidly losing land to a foul beast known as a beaver, due to global warming. Eleven thousand beavers have invaded the state and are damming up the state from one end to the other, making lakes everywhere. Good news if you like waterfront property, boating and fishing; bad news if you like mosquito-free summers and land transportation (or hiking). The changes are visible from space and have been compared in speed to a wildfire in changing the landscape. Will no one stop these monsters?

The beavers will likely increase biodiversity in Alaska, but will also accelerate global warming.

Photos from space show 11,000 beavers are wreaking havoc on the Alaskan tundra as savagely as wildfire

Get your lakefront property now, people! Do not delay!