Hurricane Classification

Hurricane Classification

Shakespeare wrote, “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” But what about a hurricane? A Hurricane by any other Category. Is it still a hurricane? We classify hurricanes by wind speeds, that’s it....
My Photo of the 2017 Total Eclipse

My Photo of the 2017 Total Eclipse

I didn’t get a filter ordered for my telescope in time for the 2017 total eclipse. So I built the standard viewing box and the results were totally underwhelming. Then I noticed the light coming through the trees. And the trees will take us to an Otherworldly...
Climate Change

Climate Change

In 2006, former Vice President Al Gore release his book and video, “An Inconvenient Truth.” It brought to the world’s attention the problem of global warming. Since then, we have had to change the term to “climate change,” because people took the term...
In Defense of Swamps

In Defense of Swamps

We’ve heard a lot lately about draining swamps, and I’m a little tired of it. A swamp is rather loosely defined as an intermittently wet lowland dominated by trees. But it is a richly diverse and viable ecosystem that is an integral part of virtually every biome and...
Water & Fracking – Just Say No

Water & Fracking – Just Say No

Healing the earth means conserving and protecting fresh water – that means saying no, to leaking pipelines and fracking.  There is no way to safely fracture formations.  Fracking fluids can get into aquifers and groundwater supplies contaminating them with...

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