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Sea Turtles on South Padre Island

Sea Turtles on South Padre Island

May 20, 2021

Hey.  I’ve been thinking alot about climate change recently, the strange weather patterns we have been seeing, and I really think there is no way to overestimate the magnitude of the problems we face.  I am especially concerned about how wildlife have become entangled with these unprecedented, human-initiated changes.  Hurricanes now come more frequently, and you may have heard about the big winter freeze in Texas in February.  Most of the news coverage of the freeze related to homes losing power and heat, and in some cases water.  I have relatives in Austin and San Antonio, and I live in...

Rising to Weep

Rising to Weep

Apr 20, 2019

As Earth Day approaches on Monday, I find myself battling again with despair about climate change and what feels like a large increase recently in the number of extreme weather events that it is causing.  Today we are faced with an increasing number of cyclones, wild fires, hurricanes, extreme rainfall and flooding, tsunamis, earthquakes, tornadoes, desertification and probably a few others that don’t come as readily to mind.  According to weather.com, there were 39 weather disasters world-wide in 2018 that caused more than 1 billion dollars of damage each, which is crazy high.  The idea that global warming is not...

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