The Farm Bill is coming up. These folks have important information about the future of plants.

The Salk Institute considers farms as heroes.

The Salk Institute can be Monsanto's best friend or worst enemy. There is only one choice, we have to go where Salk leads.

HAVE YOU READ IT !?!?!

Here it is.

READ IT!

Emission Gap Report 2023 (click here)

As greenhouse gas emissions hit new highs, (click here) temperature records tumble and climate impacts intensify, the Emissions Gap Report 2023: Broken Record – Temperatures hit new highs, yet world fails to cut emissions (again) finds that the world is heading for a temperature rise far above the Paris Agreement goals unless countries deliver more than they have promised. The report is the 14th edition in a series that brings together many of the world’s top climate scientists to look at future trends in greenhouse gas emissions and provide potential solutions to the challenge of global warming.

The Climate Crisis is getting worse. Much worse.

I have in the past mentioned the MIXING of the air masses of the stratosphere and the troposphere in climate events. These mixing episodes were actively driven by the climate crisis. The entries are here on the blog.

The illustration to the left are the different layers of Earth's atmosphere. Each layer has it's own defining characteristics.

Below is a video released by NASA illustrating the gravity waves of Helene. Helene was the hurricane that stalled over western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee. Helene's death toll has reached 246 as of January 7th.

These gravity waves reached the Mesosphere. That is a whole lot of energy from that storm that also blew the tops off the Smoky Mountains. This is unheard of and a new tipping point for Earth. We can't keep doing this to ourselves.

As the International Space Station (click here) traveled over the southeastern United States on Sept. 26, 2024, AWE observed atmospheric gravity waves generated by Hurricane Helene as the storm slammed into the gulf coast of Florida. The curved bands extending to the northwest of Florida, artificially colored red, yellow, and blue, show changes in brightness (or radiance) in a wavelength of infrared light produced by airglow in Earth’s mesosphere. The small black circles on the continent mark the locations of cities. Credit: Utah State University

The abuse of Earth's troposphere by polluting more and more greenhouse gases is dangerous, reckless, without a bit of inhibition of fear to the very serious outcomes we are all facing.

THIS MUST STOP!

This damage is caused by the heating that currently occurs on Earth (click here).

This was the correct action to take as the country moves to electric vehicles.

September 28, 2015

By Wendy Koch

In this photo (click here) provided by the United States Coast Guard, a Coast Guard helicopter crew from Air Station Kodiak conducts the 13th hoist of 18 crewmen from the mobile drilling unit Kulluk on Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012, 80 miles southwest of Kodiak City, Alaska.

...Shell, one of the world’s largest oil companies (click here), cited “disappointing” results from the well it drilled off the coast of Alaska as well as the high costs of such exploration and the challenges of seeking future U.S. permits.

So, after spending approximately $7 billion, it’s giving up on the project. It won’t seek a permit next year, and its efforts to shed related 2017 financial commitments suggest its departure may be permanent. Its news coincided with the launch of the Energy Transitions Commission, a global group including Shell that aims to address both energy poverty and climate change....

2015 was a precipitates year of decisions by Shell as their icebreaker was severely damaged in the Arctic (click here). This is the Arctic OCEAN. It is the top of the world. It is a hostile environment. There is no safety margin there. Just because the Gulf of Mexico can be drilled between hurricanes, doesn't mean it can be accomplished in the Arctic Ocean.

7 December 2022
By Ayesha Tandon and Roz Pidcock.

...The consensus (click here) is clear – as Arctic sea ice melts, polar bears are finding it harder to hunt, mate and breed. While polar bears have shown some ability to adapt to changes in their surroundings – for example, by foraging for food on land, or swimming more to hunt for prey – scientists project that as sea ice diminishes, polar bears will find it harder to survive and populations will decline....

...temperatures in the Arctic are rising nearly four times as fast as the global average, and Arctic sea ice extent has declined since 1979 for every month of the year....

January 6, 2025

A polar bear (click here) feeds on the jaws of a bowhead whale harvested by natives along the coast of ANWR.

Today, President Biden took action (click here) to protect the entire U.S. East coast, the eastern Gulf of Mexico, the Pacific off the coasts of Washington, Oregon, and California, and additional portions of the Northern Bering Sea in Alaska from future oil and natural gas leasing. In protecting more than 625 million acres of the U.S. ocean from offshore drilling, President Biden has determined that the environmental and economic risks and harms that would result from drilling in these areas outweigh their limited fossil fuel resource potential. With these withdrawals, President Biden has now conserved over 670 million acres of America’s lands and waters, more than any other president in history....

This is sincerely a closed issue. To engage is a dialogue or a lawsuit as Alaska is conducting about drilling ANWR is completely mute and nothing more than inflammatory propaganda.

January 8, 2025

By Rachel Frazin and Zack Budryk

No oil or gas company sought to drill (click here) in a contentious wildlife refuge in Alaska, the Interior Department announced Wednesday.

As required by a 2017 law, the Biden administration offered the private sector the chance to drill on tracts in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

However, it said Wednesday that no company submitted a bid to do so. The deadline to submit bids to drill was Monday.

“The lack of interest from oil companies in development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge reflects what we and they have known all along — there are some places too special and sacred to put at risk with oil and gas drilling,” Laura Daniel-Davis, acting deputy secretary of the Interior Department, said in a statement....

It is time for the country to begin to have the words "Climate Crisis" in their daily dialogue.

There was only one place (click here) in the state of California where a fire could be ignited with this intensity and that is exactly what occurred. Everything that could have been done was being done and everything that is being done is being done.

...Conversely, drought worsened for southern California...

...A dry start (click here) to the winter and using 90-day SPI (click here) and soil moisture, moderate drought (D1) was expanded across southern California. The NDMC short-term blend, 90-day SPI, and many 28-day average streamflows below the 10th percentile supported the addition of severe drought (D2) to portions of southern California. The Santa Ana winds during early January are likely to exacerbate the worsening drought conditions. Consistent with the NDMC short-term blend along with 30 to 120-day SPI, D2 was expanded for portions of southeastern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico. Based on water year to date (WYTD: October 1, 2024 to January 6, 2025) precipitation averaging above normal and snow water equivalent (SWE) above the 80th percentile, a 1-category improvement was made to southwestern Idaho, eastern to central Oregon, eastern Washington and a small part of northwestern Montana. This 1-category improvement is also supported by NDMC drought blends and SPIs at various time scales. As of January 7, SWE was above-normal (period of record: 1991-2020) across the southern Cascades along with eastern Oregon and southwestern Idaho. SWE was highly variable for the Sierra Nevada Mountains and below-normal across the Four Corners Region.

California was doing all it could (click here) and farther ahead of any other state of the country with a population of nearly 39 million Americans. It is the climate and the severe drought of southern California that sparked an inferno with winds that would not relent.

Two incredible Americans

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One lost to us today leaving a vast memory of humanitarian values. The other still precious to the American values we all should embrace.