When I was young, I thought every cloud in the summer time meant a thunderstorm, and every thunderstorm meant a tornado or some other life-changing natural disaster complete with hail, fire and flying cows. Thankfully, I’ve learned a lot in…
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Global warming isn’t just something liberal environmentalists worry about anymore. It’s a trend of epic proportions that will impact literally every corner of the earth. Finally, green is the new black. It’s trendy, and for good reason: the state of…
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It may be surprising to some, but there really isn’t a lot of difference between sleet and rain, except important one. That one difference is well worth looking at in more detail, especially with the confusion about precipitation terms. In…
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Since they sound so opposing, one might wonder how someone could possibly think that our global warming may lead to a new ice age. To answer this, we need to look at a few facts that media and politically organizations…
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Approximately 80 years ago, during the Great Depression, the western United States was swallowed in dirt. The West was associated with agriculture then and due to improper farming and ranching methods, the desert suffocated much of the Great Plains. Fast-forward …
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Humans impact coastal zones more than they ever think. Building on the sand, or putting up walls to try to prevent flooding puts considerable strain on the coastal areas. Uses the beach and walking on the grasses thins them but…
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Biopiracy, like the term “bioprospecting”, is an unofficial but increasingly common term today. This is not piracy on the highways or high seas, but is the aggressive and unethical taking of natural and intellectual resources for great profit without compensating…
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Biopiracy is an informal term used to refer to current attempts by (usually) Western-based multinational corporations to identify, patent, and therefore effectively “own” traditional uses of plants and herbs, as well as heretofore unrealized properties of local plants, in poor…
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Climates are affected by a variety of factors. Some of these have major effects over a large area, and others can have micro-effects in very limited areas. Essentially the earth’s climates are driven by the sun’s radiation. When the sun…
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There are five air masses that effect weather in the United States during a typical year. “Air masses are relatively large bodies of air that are fairly horizontally uniform in characteristics. They have relatively uniform temperature and moisture content; the…
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