This week and for three weeks in total, I am back in the Dominican Republic, in the old familiar place where I have spent so much time. I thought that going there would cause me to feel happy, as it always has before. It didn’t. The first sign of trouble was the point where I am used to having to c…

[image] jasonhernandez74: But with the constant news about climate change, there is always the question back of mind: what if they don’t? What if this is the new normal? When I give talks in New Mexico, I mention climate predictions for the next 30-50 years. I attended a presentation that gav…

That would be hard. Odds are there are going to be a lot of tears shed in a lot of places for similar reasons over the next few years. On the other hand, you actually had the foresight (or the good fortune) to do a useful study before the river ran dry and the lemon tree puckered up, which means th…

Western Cape is locked in the other extreme. Floods. Roads closed. Bridges washed away. People who were away for the long weekend (nasty weather) and now cannot get back to the city. This is our spring flower season. Prompted to think about the effect on flowering bulbs and annuals, their insects, …

I think we should be careful not to project too much from climate change driven extremes especially in terms of wet vs dry. To clarify, i think things are becoming more extreme and that outweighs trends of wetter vs drier and sometimes even warmer vs colder. I don’t think it’s always best to plant t…

This fits my experience too, last winter was the warmest in the 14 years I’ve lived here, now to be clear where, I am the ground is covered in snow uninterrupted from late Dec or early Jan until sometime in march, but this year there were patches of green!! grass interspersed with patches of snow (g…

When I was a young boy in grade school (15 years ago or so), we would always get many feet of snow where I grew up (New York), and the snowplow would construct a giant mound of snow that the children would climb on and play king of the hill and sometimes sled down. Now, these past 3 years, we’re lu…

[image] jasonhernandez74: Dominican Republic never been there. These are tropical Islands. I guess there is dry season over there right now. Naturally, when it is dry, the butterflies may be lesser. I imagine these places generally have typhoons passing through to USA, and rain is ample. I re…

Personally, the only positive I see right now is I’ll probably be deceased before things really unravel. And since I don’t have kids, I won’t be leaving them to a mess. Yeah that’s grim but maybe I’m wrong and the new normal won’t be so bad. One can hope.

[image] chugbug111: I was growing some orchids called Equitant oncidiums, very colour orchids that originate from the Caribbeans. Here is one, from many years ago. [image] chugbug111: I guess there is dry season over there right now. Naturally, when it is dry, the butterflies may be less…

I’ve just heard in the news. There is drought in Brazil due to El nino. Fishes in the Amazon river are dying in large numbers and the water is polluted.

Trouble in paradise

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