Heatwave Mass Casualties Strike India in April Amidst Severe Drought, Water Shortages

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Probably another dangerously hot summer ahead.

Better land use one of the keys to slowing global warming

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Soil Erosion--3GR: Carbon storage in soils equates to fertility. Over most of the Earth’s land surfaces, grazing and farming lead to loss of topsoil, the upper soil layer that holds the carbon. It will be very difficult to improve the current wasteful practices since the growing human population is urgently demanding more meat and potatoes. Unlike disaster movies with a positive conclusion, our waste of the soil will lead to a bad ending. Unlike the alien invaders in the movie Independence Day, we humans cannot move on when our resources are exhausted.

Warm, Southerly Winds Gust at Hurricane Force Over Greenland in Staggering Early Season Heatwave — Temperatures Now Hitting up to 41 Degrees (F) Above Average at Summit

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And now . . . more juice for the N. Atlantic cool pool. Thanks Robert for the information. And thanks to all the commenting climatologists for your insights and additions. Required reading.

Morning photo: Marillenblüte

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Fossil Fuel and Nuclear Industries in lockstep in Australia – theme for April 16

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Heads in sand.

NASA’s new sea level site puts climate change papers, data, and tools online

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NASA took the wraps off a new website on Monday dedicated to tracking global changes in the sea level. It’s packed full of free online resources that will..

Sourced through Scoop.it from: techcrunch.com

GR:  NASA’s contribution to the climate-change problem is outstanding.  This is another example of tax dollers well spent.

See on Scoop.it – GarryRogers Biosphere News

Almost Half Of Natural World Heritage Sites Are Threatened By Industry, New Report Says

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Sub-Saharan Africa has the most World Heritage sites at risk, but even developed countries like the United States and Canada are harming some of their sites with development.  From: thinkprogress.org

Onward to the future factory-farm that was our Earth.

Butterfly species decline ‘dramatically’ in Germany | Global Ideas | DW.COM | 30.03.2016

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GR:  Similar reports are coming in from around the world.  Toxic pesticides are an important contributor to the decline in many other areas.

“Climate change and nitrogen pollution may be behind the “dramatic drop” in the number of butterfly species in Germany over the past 200 years, according to new research.

“Of the 117 butterfly species recorded in 1840 in the survey site, a protected habitat in the south-German state of Bavaria, just 71 are still found today, said the authors of the study recently published in journal “Conservation Biology.”

“Species requiring a specific type of habitat or food source, such as the “elegant white and ochre-spotted” hermit butterfly, are threatened with extinction in Germany. The hermit, for instance, lives in dry grasslands and will be hit even harder by changes in land use and global warming in the future, say the authors.”  From: www.dw.com

New Tesla for the Masses: Orders off the Hook

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This automobile and Tesla’s network of power stations, adds another practical reason for our next car to be pollution-free.