Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
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Okay, good. I was starting to wonder if I was. I've mowed my lawn 3 times already this year (first in late February). I usually don't need to until much closer to April in my area.
Bit of a secret tip, you don’t need to mow lawns. That stuffs just boomerism, even better if you replace it with native flora.
Invasives are invasive for a reason: they outcompete the natives. No one would care about them if they didn't.
That means you need to intervene if you want the natives to survive. So if you really want a no-mow native garden and aren't in some natural desert or such, you're committing to a lot of work to maintain that useful, healthy native garden. Weeding, care and attention, re-seeding, researching, undoing the soil damage caused by years/decades of unsustainable practices, and all that.
I encourage anyone to do it. I totally understand if people don't have the time to do it and just prefer mowing a few times a month to maintain turf grass -- in my area, turf grass is ALSO native and mowing is HOW you maintain it, absent the grazing animals that once would've handled that.
Yeah, I tried to do the whole no-mow thing for a while. Between invasive vines shading the soil and heavy rains washing the now-loose soil away, my backyard is pretty much dead.
But where will I host my royal garden parties?
In the garden? Please tell me you haven't been hosting lawn parties and calling them garden parties. I am positively clutching my pearls.
Sadly accurate given that I live in the bit of purple in Colorado, and it has been 70s here, which is normal for our spring season.
Dude I’m in New York and it’s been 70s here. Scary.
That is even more worrying since that isn't normal for your spring season.
For sure. It hasn’t really been consistent, though. There’s always next year…yay.
I said this shit in 2005 and got prepared by learning a whole bunch of useful skills.
Building skills. Mechanical skills. Computer skills.
Looks like I did right by myself. I suggest people start setting up third places to skill share.
With the elite shit eating scumbags and their temporarily embarrassed millionaire boomer population still in charge we may need them.
I'm more intrigued by the purple zones. 7-14 days late. I live a couple of hundred kilometers north of that big "late zone" next to Canada.
Springs don't feel particularly late to me, although I also don't have any real data. Farmers seem to be in the fields earlier than they used to, leading to harvest starting earlier than it used to. Gardeners don't always wait for the end of May to plant the way they used to.
On the other hand, my record of pellet consumption (we heat using a pellet stove) shows our heating season getting longer. I just assumed that that was because we're getting less tolerant of a chill in the air as we age.