Water wars, oil wars, climate change, global warming, A personal view
30 Sep
According to a study mentioned in this article, we will naturally see a northward migration, not only humans but animals and insects. It has already started:
“People, of course, have always adapted to changes in their environment. Half a million Oklahomans and other Southwesterners migrated to California during the Dust Bowl droughts of the 1930s. Thousands of New Orleans residents will never return to their Hurricane Katrina-devastated city.
As the United States gets hotter, people will try to move north, predicted Jay Gulledge, a senior researcher at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change in Arlington, Va.
“Unfortunately, all the good places are already taken,” he said. As a result, “Canada will be more populous 500 years from now.”
Animals, plants and insects already are migrating toward cooler climes.
Since 1975, 1,700 biological species have been moving poleward at an average speed of 25 miles per decade, James Hansen, a NASA environmental scientist, reported in this week’s edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.”
They’re on their way and they’re headed right towards our neighborhood where, as he says, ‘all the good places are already taken’.
21 Sep
This balanced article (quote above is a LInk) notes a major concern: Though scientific opinion is divided on whether we face a gradual warming or a possibly rapid change, the political planners are only considering the gradual possibility.
Should those who see a ‘wild careening’ into massive changes be right, we will be totally unprepared to cope with those changes.
17 Sep
These pictures from a NASA satellite graphically show the degree of ice loss in one year- its frightening how fast this open water is appearing. Even more troubling is the feedback effect: Open water absorbs heat unlike ice which reflects it. This will speed up the melt even more.
Please note, this ice loss is perennial ice, ice that normally appears every year and will no longer do so.

13 Sep
Check out the Cyclean, a bicycle-powered washer/dryer invented by a Brit named Alex Gadsden from parts scavenged in a junkyard. Clean your clothes, help the environment and get fit at the same- or as he says (after demoing it at a festival),
"…you could say I had a laundrette running in a field in the Mendip hills, I was a stone lighter when I got back from the festival."
A stone is Brit for 14lbs.
BTW, that bike looks a bit like my beloved 1987 Bianchi Grizzly mountain bike, the only mountain bike I’ve seen with a lugged frame.