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Call it a snowball effect, a dirty snowball effect to be more precise. The human-generated warming of Earth creates conditions that increase the degradation of our planet. At the first of October, Sci-Tech Daily reported, “Warming oceans cause fewer
Read moreThe 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference kicks off Sunday in Glasgow. Representatives from 200 countries will be “asked for their plans to cut emissions by 2030,” according to the BBC. “They all agreed in 2015 to make changes
Read moreIn mid-August, the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued a report documenting the continuing warming of Earth and the perils implicit therein. But, the fate of the planet and everyone upon it doesn’t hold the attention
Read moreLooks can be deceiving. Our Southern Plains has had a milder than normal summer – with rains arriving almost weekly. Last week reminded us of our norms, but this week is supposed to be cooler again. We could
Read morePolar bears spend so much of their time on ice floes and the frozen Arctic Ocean that they are classified as aquatic mammals. The greenhouse-effect heating of planet Earth is melting polar bear habitat out of existence. In
Read morePresident Joe Biden had a successful trip to Europe earlier this month. The main item on the Biden agenda was to assure our allies – and enemies – that the United States is again in the hands of a
Read moreI got up early last week to watch the Ingenuity helicopter’s first flight on Mars. A mere 184.46 million miles away, Ingenuity sat on the Martian surface awaiting commands from the control room full of bright young faces at the
Read moreClassical Greeks and Romans once had a wonder plant called silphium, so revered that it appeared on coinage. In 2017, Zaria Gorvett listed some of its uses for the BBC: “Its crunchable stalks were roasted, sautéed or boiled and eaten
Read moreThe heat is on. And we have seen the deep freeze to prove it. Duncanites were among the luckiest in a two-state area during and after the February deep freeze. My unofficial reckoning showed 283 straight hours at freezing or
Read moreWith the departure of the banditti leading the previous administration, four years of orchestrated greed, graft, golf and ill-governance have come to an end. Now, we have President Joe Biden, a moderate Democrat, who will try to put our ship
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