The Rude Pundit: How Fucked the Climate Is in Two Photos (Updated)
Hey, kids, here's what's going on in Yosemite National Park. It's a wildfire. It ain't the biggest fire ever, or even this year in California, but it's burning some nice places.
Down the road about 650 miles, just one state over, Phoenix, Arizona is experiencing its worst flooding in, like, ever.
Fire and floods, motherfuckers, fires and floods. Biblical shit right there. Need more?
The fucked climate is fucking over the birds, too. Yeah, the habitats and migratory routes of more than half the bird species in the United States are under the global warming gun. The drought in California wiped out 90-95% of all the raptor nests. No baby hawks, no baby eagles, no baby falcons.
At least this way when people tell you that marching to protest inaction on climate change, as we are going to do on Sunday, is for the birds, you can answer, "Yes. And the people, too."
Update: And also out today: Greenhouse gases are increasing at an even faster rate. "Experts warned that the world was 'running out of time' to reverse rising levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) to tackle climate change." Of course, we'll do nothing, fucking ourselves and our children even more.
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But glad you were able to see it. What an awesome thing
Since the end of the last ice age we've not been warming... what we've seen in the past decades is all on us. If you look at the past 10,000 years or so stable or cooling would be much better characterizations than warming:
The last two millennia look like this:
I don't think looking at either the past two millennia or the past ten suggests we were warming anyway, and have simply accelerated what was happening already.
It's true that the picture at Kilimanjaro is far more complicated, and seems to be more about atmospheric moisture and precipitation than temperature and melting.
around this time they'd mass together down in the dunes to begin migration.
...and then we won't." -- James Kunstler
that will help. NOT.
Fine, whatever.
I live in an area surrounded by 60+ year old organic gardeners and small farmers. I took a walk at my dinner break last night and passed an elderly man protesting the drone war. On my way to work tomorrow morning, I will pass by the Rachel Carson preserve.
But if you want to spread it around that "we're" up against me, my friends and my neighbors, so be it. You are still tarring us with a broad brush. 
I was in a rough board situation at a farm with a small, private track. I hired myself out for care, lessons and training to various boarders. That included a guy who had 2 harness horses -- I jogged them for him daily for a year or so. It was a blast. I also had limited experience when my best friend across the street got a pony and cart, so the 2 of us drove her around.
So I'll need training in driving, although I did ground drive my filly as part of her training. Plus I want to learn to twitch logs. The local county fairs here include competitions in log pulling. Mostly large draft horses, but haflingers have also become popular here. I'd like to see a return to morgans. We don't need to import light draft; just get the foundation lines back here again. And I think morgans cross with arabs much better than the haflinger crosses I've seen. The haflinger-arab crosses look like they have the typical problems that F-1 generation warmbloods had. Draft-hotblood are just too unlike in basic type so you end up with a lot of disasters. Whereas foundation morgans are much more like old-style arabs -- just with more substance.
It was my old gelding that I lost; my mare is young and enjoying her vacation. Sorry you lost your mare. My 1st teacher was a big-time eventer (Lockie Richards), and wanted me to go in that direction. I was a very good jumping rider, but lack the courage (or insanity, lol) required for eventing. I wanted to learn dressage from the time I saw Miracle of the White Stallions when I was 11.
Btw, according to Robert Hall, eventing is really just dressage with running and jumps in between 
Make up your mind, eh?
Actually, don't bother. You're just spinning your wheels here. I have better things to do with my time. Have a nice day. 
abortion clinics will go a long way in reducing the population.
the irony and sarcasm in your post, the sad truth is that the lack of those clinics won't have a perceptible affect on population numbers. Oh, the lack will matter a great deal to the individual women who no longer have access to needed health care, including abortions, but the sheer excess numbers of people goes well beyond this.
... we do. We do the wrong thing about every issue every single time. 
on an individual level, that would start to make a change for the positive, almost without thinking.
Yeah, that whole "eating meat" thing. Alas, bacon tastes sooooo good.
