A summer’s day as we may have experienced it in 2021 is not quite the same in regard to weather, plant and animal activity, and a range of other natural phenomena as it was in 2001, or 1961, or 1901. And as Joe Shute, keen observer of weather that he is, discovered in years of research into the subject, it’s becoming more and more different more quickly with each passing year.
In her book, Dr. Otto, the acting director of the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, and Associate Professor in the Global Climate Science Programme, applies attribution science to recent significant weather events – with the narrative centered upon Hurricane Harvey – to determine if anthropogenic elements can be demonstrated in their causes.
Like many people, my knowledge of Robert Fitzroy has long been limited to the sole fact that he was the captain of the H.M.S. Beagle during Charles Darwin’s famous voyage upon it. I’d read in Darwin’s own writings that he had held Fitzroy in high esteem, as well as passing mentions elsewhere that Fitzroy and […]
Ever since the remarkable success of the English translation of Peter Wohlleben’s “The Hidden Life of Trees,” it seems that English language publishers have been very busily working their way through his previous writings in search of any others that might meet with similar success in the U.S., Canada, and Great Britain. Not to in any way diminsih Herr Wohlleben’s work – I happen to be quite impressed by the way he has brought his fresh, “deeper than deep” ecological ideas into the mainstream reading public.