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cheers for south korea

Mandating air cleaners in schools.

Even excluding Covid the kids, as a whole, will probably be healthier and more alert in class.

 

 

global warming and a tradition at risk

A hair-raising challenge in Canada.

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It turns out there’s a science to making strands of hair look like frosty ramen noodles. Participants dip their heads underwater, emerge into the frigid air and then employ their creativity in styling updos that vary in appearance from crazy spikes to tangled mops. Some have the helping hands of friends, while others fly solo. Once coifed, participants ring a bell to ask for a staff member to shoot their pic.

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on the death of a lake

A nice piece on the disappearing Great Salt Lake and the changes its demise will bring. 

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The lake’s Gunnison Island has been a sanctuary to one of the largest white pelican rookeries in North America, with as many as 20,000 nesting individuals. The watery distance from the island to the mainland has protected the pelicans from predators. Now, young pelicans are easy prey for coyotes crossing the land bridge created as the waters receded.

Most likely spooked by coyotes, the adolescent pelicans fled the island, but their wings were not strong enough to fly the miles to fresh water for fish. Forced down by fatigue, they were dying from hunger and thirst. Walking behind them at a respectful distance felt like a funeral procession. I passed 60 salt-encrusted bodies stiff on the salt flats, hollow bones protruding from crystallized clumps of feathers, wings splayed like fans waving in the heat.

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montana youth and climate change

Some teenagers sue the state over its fossil fuel promotion. The state constitution makes this interesting, but given Montana's hard turn to the right in the past decade and judges, it seems unlikely,  Still..

 

 

on banning cats and cars.

Bird carnage argument the anti-green energy crowd makes about wind turbines.  Perhaps some other things would have to be banned first.  

 

gray protests

Often boomers and the great generation are associated with the right, but that's far from universal.  And now protests on the doorsteps of major banks for the good of the planet rather than for fascist politicians and oil companies.

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“If you’re 65 now, you’ve been on this planet for something like 80 percent of the carbon dioxide that’s ever been emitted,” he said. “There’s a debt to be paid, and there are ways to pay it.”

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another important chart to ponder

From the latest IPCC report

 

 

an important graphic

From today's IPCC report on climate change.  All alarms - action needs to be taken now.  Here's the low hanging fruit.  A carbon "tax" of $50 to $100 would be powerful.

drinking the water

Where is tap water safe to drink?

 

the shy and retiring black widow

Aggressive young brown widow spiders are attacking them.

a tip of the hat to Sukie