Tag Archives: Climate Change

Science And the Public

Climate, Infection, Science, ,

DSC03838 Hilarious! But deeper down, there are a couple of reasons behind this.

  1. Ebola, if you catch it, is much more immediate than climate change, although the latter is already detectably going on.
  2. Ebola sounds so individually horrible,  whereas climate change is out there, and does not seem to personally hurt us.

Of course, altogether, climate change is affecting everybody on earth right now, and could even conceivably be aggravating the ebola, by way of increasing stress of change on plant, animal, and human immune systems.

Climate change is already affecting us because we see a lot of drought, more fires, bigger storms, even earthquakes caused by fracking to access the natural gas, which we need to supplement the energy provided by oil and coal burning.

 

The Life In Victorian Houses

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DSC01796 This book, copyrighted twice in 1993, by the photographer, Tim Fields, and the text authors, would be a wonderful coffee table book.  It has fantastic photographs.  Beyond that, as you see on the inside of the book jacket, it describes aspects of what life was really like in Victorian Times in information gleaned from the American  houses

DSC01800  I find it fascinating to learn about.

With widespread consumerism first available at this time, Victorian times were definitely antecedent to the world we know today.   I admire the vigor of Victorian times, and the strong sense of inquiry.  I regret that these qualities have led us to global warming and climate change.   Now we have to find ways to continue the good aspects, while learning to live within the annual energy budget granted to us by the sun, quite a tall order.  I want to use the good qualities of mankind which produced those times,  in order to help us deal with climate change, and other issues of our times in 2014.

This is a Rosenberg Library book.