Green Group discussion

The article says this climate boundary has been shifting east since the 1870's.

https://www.freep.com/story/news/nati...

Thanks for the info Robert.

It will be interesting to see how this progresses and to see how we do with fresh water for irrigation etc. I have been doing a fair bit of reading on it and am working on a short article related to it.

Did you know that over half of the fresh water that we consume is used in the generation of electricty ?

If the glaciers weren't melting there wouldn't be enough water for everything it's being used for.

Record heat all over the northern hemisphere; Canada has hottest day since records began.

https://www.ecowatch.com/summer-2018-...

In my particular area we were somewhat lucky, it had been so cold and wet previous to the heat wave that the ground never dried out from all the heat. That can kill all the new growth, the sudden drying out. One more day to go but it's supposed to end with rain. If it cools off too fast the storms might become destructive.

Every evening on the Irish news the farmers are showing us dust and disaster. The fodder store is gone because of the long winter and wet spring. They have just taken one cut of silage and now the grass is brown and crispy. Ireland's biggest crop is grass. The tillage farmers show us crops stunted or wilted in the fields.

My garden is doing fine and I do not water, but I mainly have shrubs and fruit. The roots are deep enough to find water.

Here is an alarming report that climate change may be double what the scientists have predicted:

https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/sci...

Jimmy... Thank you for the update, but it is Friday and you are depressing me !!! I am going to hunt down some cute kitten videos to help me forget about this mess for just a little bit!

I love kitties. I am a total cat person.

We have four cats, sadly down from five at the start of the year. One of them didn't come in for his supper, so he bounded in during the night and shouted in my ear to wake me. Then he sat on my chest, purring, to say I should get up and feed him. I told him to shove off and eat the dry food instead.
He was first in the queue for breakfast, of course.

Mine just kneed my bladder until I am forced to get up...

See.. isn't this a much better conversation than all that depressing enviro stuff? We need to get back to it.. but I needed this little break !!

Thanks !!!

See Simon's Cat on Youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyWfU...

Perfect !

NASA has a look at warming permafrost regions, how they are greening. They have decided that carbon is being released faster than new growth can trap it.
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.ph...

Sometimes Nasa leaves me wondering. Those are literally oceans of permafrost, some of them quite deep. The only way we can hope to control it, is to dig it all up, package it and use it as dirt supplements for new growth forest projects where we plant diversity rich plants and trees, take care of it but don't cut it down, don't harvest it such that the plant and animal diversity is ever compromised.

There are two kinds of forests, those that grow all year long, and those that grow in some seasons and are dormant in other seasons. They both contribute to the stability of the environment, but in different ways.

Europe sees intense heat.
France has shut down four nuclear reactors as it can't cool them. Germany has seen fish die-offs in warm rivers. Cattle in Switzerland are stranded without water.
And forest fires burn in the Iberian peninsula (Spain and Portugal) at the height of tourist seaon.
https://www.independent.ie/world-news...