Good reads here on why COVID may no longer be a pandemic, and how the virus is now endemic (but stay up-to-date on vaccinations and mask when appropriate)…
From nymag.com: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/09/biden-right-to-say-the-pandemic-is-over-on-60-minutes.html From the American Medical Association: https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/public-health/how-we-will-know-when-covid-19-has-become-endemic coronavirus, Parodi, AMA, masking, vaccination
As overpopulation and climate change diminish water supplies in the West, Oregon irrigation districts are looking at innovation to stop water loss from irrigation ditches…
From grist.org: https://grist.org/parched/ oasis civilization, limits to supply of water, wasteful irrigation ditches, "drought"
Good news about “agrisolar” and how solar panels and agriculture can work hand in hand…
From IndyStar: https://www.indystar.com/story/news/environment/2022/09/13/purdue-leading-research-to-grow-solar-and-crops-together-in-corn-belt/66843196007/ farming, ranching, renewables, dual use of land, climate change, extra income
From our Man-caused climate change section: climate change is wreaking havoc with an unprecedented drought in the American southwest…
From The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/12/us-west-megadrought-climate-disaster? global warming, drought in the West, drought in Montana, water wars, whiskey's for drinking, water's for fighting
Overtourism is not just a global problem, it has arrived in Montana and the rest of the West…
From The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/nov/20/national-parks-america-overcrowding-crisis-tourism-visitation-solutions Information from Montana Public Radio: https://www.mtpr.org/montana-news/2022-03-23/most-montanans-think-tourism-is-overcrowding-the-state-survey-says From responsibletourismpartnership.org: https://responsibletourismpartnership.org/overtourism/ adverse experience for both tourists and locals, environmental degradation, decreased quality of...
Carbon County is under an Air Quality Alert: summer in Montana is now “smoke season” (fortunately, it’s getting a later start this year than in recent years)…
From The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/12/california-wildfires-oregon-washington? global warming, fire suppression in past coming back to haunt us, climate change, raking doesn't help
Your seashores will not be your grandchildren’s seashores, as sea levels rise…
From The Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/09/08/sea-level-rise-climate-central/? global warming, inconvenient truth
Carbon County finally got a break today, with cool, wet weather, otherwise September has been record-setting in the West, and not in a good way…
From the Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/09/08/western-heatwave-records-california-climate/? "drought," global warming, not the Montana we used to know, deadly
First Bannon. Then Trump. Let justice be served. No one is above the law.
Thanks to Nick Anderson. Mar-A-Lago, classified documents, nuclear secrets, treason, stolen
From our Media failure section: both KPVI and the Billings Gazette have a story on “drought conditions in the upper Missouri River Basin,” with no mention of man-caused climate change…
From KPVI: https://www.kpvi.com/news/national_news/drought-conditions-worsen-across-upper-missouri-river-basin/article_2af7b8c5-f045-5dcb-9038-a7121d2419d9.html why afraid to report the truth, an inconvenient truth, global warming