AS THE CLIMATE WARMS, TENS OF THOUSANDS OF LAKES MAY SPEND WINTERS ICE FREE
The first global estimate of how many lakes are likely to lose winter ice cover as the climate warms is not cheery.
FORENSIC BOTANY IN ACTION
An estimated $150 billion a year changes hands in the complex, global forest products industry that logs 32 million acres of forest every year, often illegally, leaving a trail of devastation to ecosystems and local economies around the world. Much of that timber makes its way to the United States, currently the largest wood products market in the world.
HOW WILL GLOBAL WARMING AFFECT WISCONSIN?
Think globally – act locally! I got a chance to do just that recently when I read in the local newspaper, The Dodgeville Chronicle, about an upcoming 4-part series of evening presentations called “Floods, Droughts, Land and Energy: What Is Wisconsin’s Future.” We now live about 11 miles from Dodgeville, […]
A TALE OF TWO MAPS SHOWING CLIMATE CHANGE AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT
Climate Progress is a blog I follow to keep informed about what is being said and done regarding global climate disruption, and in the past several days, I have read two interesting articles there that are both accompanied by maps. My older daughter got her bachelor’s degree in social geography, […]
IRRIGATION AND GLOBAL WARMING
I’ve been thinking about irrigating as we plan to sink cisterns beside the barn to store rain water. With precipitation starting to come in more intense episodes in the Midwest followed by long dry spells, it seems like the best idea. This press release from UW-Madison writer Jill Sakai takes […]
OUR CURRENT CLIMATE AS SEEN FROM DEEP TIME
Sometimes it makes sense to step back and look at the big picture. At a Wednesday Nite at the Lab lecture on the UW-Madison campus recently Todd LaMarskin of the Wisconsin Geological and Natural Survey detailed how paleoclimatology studies earth’s climate before we started keeping measurements with instruments. That means […]
ARE YOU PREPARED FOR THE GREAT DISRUPTION?
Do you see all the signs that climate change is coming at us like a freight train while society dawdles and denies? If you fear for the future, and sometimes feel almost paralyzed by the magnitude of the menace, then The Great Disruption by Paul Gilding is the book for you. […]
CLIMATE SICKNESS AND ITS CURE
Have you ever heard of Dengue fever? If not, you will soon. I was reminded of it as I listened to science writer Dan Ferber talk about a book he has written with Paul R. Epstein, Associate Director of the Center for Health and Global Environment at Harvard Medical School. […]
THEY ARE COMING! JOURNEY NORTH TRACKS MONARCHS ON THE MOVE
Do you love the first sight of snow drops or crocus or scilla? Are you watching the grass green up and watching willow branches turn yellow green? Have you got geese nesting on a pond near you? Senior citizens in Miami and Phoenix aren’t the only ones who venture north […]
UW-EXTENSION SUSTAINABILITY TEAM: THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE
Those of us who live in Wisconsin have been observing and/or participating in a major civics exercise the past few weeks. It’s been an astonishing demonstration of what people are willing to do when they perceive their government is overreaching its authority. My throat is raw, my arches ache and […]
Digging in the Driftless 