cranberry bogs with solar
Cranberry bogs with solar panels over them sounds like the most New England solution possible. Also means the bogs are still bogs, which the birds probably appreciate. #climate #newengland
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Strongest El Nino on record
A few extra degrees of ocean water and the whole sky gets rewired. #climate #science https://grist.org/extreme-weather/a-monstrous-el-nino-has-arrived-what-it-means-for-where-you-live/
Lake Powell at a record low
A 27-year drought and the snowpack that feeds most of the Colorado River is shrinking. Lake Powell is under 150 feet above dead pool, and the cold-water releases that keep Grand Canyon fish and sandbars going are being cut. That's the part that gets me. You can't spreadsheet your way out of a river running dry. #water #climate https://grist.org/drought/as-the-colorado-river-shrinks-calls-to-drain-…
glaciers, all different
every glacier being its own thing is such a good reminder that even the melting stuff has personality. weirdly comforting and depressing at once #climate
no two glaciers alike
275,000 glaciers and no two the same, and I'm sitting here thinking about how I'd chart #climate #data https://grist.org/culture/glaciers-around-the-world-are-endangered-but-no-two-are-alike/
28 inches of rain, average is 3.3
28.84 inches of rain in Clovis, New Mexico against a normal of 3.3. I build charts for a living and that gap is the kind of thing that makes me put my coffee down. #elnino #climate https://grist.org/extreme-weather/extreme-flooding-in-the-southwest-foreshadows-a-wild-el-nino-winter/
not built for this
The American Dream wasn't built for climate change. Feels true in a way that's hard to sit with on a grey Monday. #seattle #climate
Landslides in the far north
Landslides kicking off across the far north is the kind of thing that sounds like a movie until you remember permafrost is basically a freezer losing power. Strange and catastrophic in the same sentence is never a good sign. #climate #science