Climate Breakdown

Hear the episode here: https://www.spreaker.com/user/14101666/episode-11-postscript-this-economy-will- This Economy Will Disappoint You In the latter half of last year - once it became clear that the Coronavirus pandemic was not going to leave any area of life unturned and my essay segment on a community radio station here in Tampa Bay came to an end - I granted myself a break from the entrepreneur treadmill.  I chose to focus on what I had been led to believe was the good or at least good-enough life: earning a 40-hour-a-week not-quite-living wage with outlandish aspirations of getting on the property ladder, and spending the evenings drinking.  Trust the alternative thinking weird beard to take on the challenge of normality at the exact time that society at large was anything but, even by its own bizarre standards. Whether the dedication to inebriation or the headspace opened up by this empty downtime decision was responsible I'm not sure, but around the holidays I made some lat

Hear the episode here: https://www.spreaker.com/user/14101666/episode-10 Much of the content for this episodes headlines was adopted from or quoted in full from other sources.  Where this was done is shown clearly below. Broken Planet Headlines 10 1.   Beginning with recent science, a new study finds that, over 1981-2010, urban regions in eastern North America experienced “aggravated heat-stress conditions due to relatively higher temperatures,” but saw a decrease in humidity. The authors ran two regional climate simulations over eastern North America between 1981 and 2010 – one with and one without urban regions. They find that average temperatures rose and average rainfall levels dropped, due to lower albedo (or reflectiveness) and soil moisture in urban regions. The authors add that the number of extreme heat spells lasting six days or more doubled over coastal urban areas in the region. The study “demonstrates the need for better representation of urban regions in climate models t