Category Archives: Disasters

U. S. Suicides Hit All-Time High in 2022

MIKE STOBBE — Associated Press  August 10, 2023

If you or someone you know is thinking about suicide, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-TALK (8255) or text the Crisis Text Line at 741-741. It is a free 24/7 service that can provide suicidal persons or those around them with support, information and local resources.

NEW YORK (AP) — About 49,500 people took their own lives last year in the U.S., the highest number ever, according to new government data posted Thursday.

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Florida is in HOT Water: Boiling Its Corals

The water temperature on the tip of Florida hit hot tub levels, exceeding 100 degrees (37.8 degrees Celsius) two days in a row. And meteorologists say that could potentially be the hottest seawater ever measured, although there are some issues with the reading.

Just 26 miles (40 kilometers) away, scientists saw devastating effects from prolonged hot water surrounding Florida — devastating coral bleaching and even some death in what had been one of the Florida Keys most resilient reefs. Climate change has been setting temperature records across the globe this month.
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Dyer-Spain, the far Right, The burning sun, the future . . .

GWYNNE DYER: Spanish election — Franco’s ghost? July 20, 2023

Spain has been a democracy since 1975, but right-wing Vox leader may dream of filling former dictator’s shoes

Spain’s far right Vox party leader Santiago Abascal says he is open to forming national and regional governing coalitions with the mainstream conservative People’s Party after the July 23 election. Continue reading Dyer-Spain, the far Right, The burning sun, the future . . .

Dyer- Climate Tipping Points Are In Sight & Near

Gwynne Dyer  — Climate Crisis Speeding Up

What we’re seeing is climate impacts that scientists thought would accompany certain temperatures happening far more rapidly, with far more devastating effects than had been forecast,” said Dr. Simon Nicholson of the Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment at American University.

“We didn’t think that the Arctic would crash by now, and yet it’s almost gone. We didn’t think we’d be seeing these wildfires in Australia and the United States and elsewhere with the frequency and severity that they’re being seen.

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Gwynne Dyer: Two Long-Range Weather Reports

Gwynne Dyer — July 12, 2023

Boing! Just like that! The Anthropocene officially started on July 11, we’re not in the Holocene anymore.

Dr. Katherine Richardson

That golden age of warm, stable climate in which humans started farming, grew their population a thousandfold, and created high-energy, hi-tech civilizations is at an end.

“I was there when the Anthropocene was born. It was so amazing,” said Dr. Katherine Richardson, leader of the Sustainability Science Centre at the University of Copenhagen. “It was actually in 2000, at one of these meetings of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme Scientific Steering Committee.” Continue reading Gwynne Dyer: Two Long-Range Weather Reports