by Joseph Morris I have a riddle for you. It’s probably not as good as one of Bruce’s knock-knock jokes… What do Montreal Canada and Columbia Maryland have in common? Some might say not much but they were both in…
Shir Shalom & the Environment – El Niño and Buffalo Winters
by Joseph Morris I was sitting in my comfy recliner staring out the patio door at the pile of snow from the November snowstorm. Lake effect snow requires an unfrozen Lake Erie. I wondered how climate change was impacting Lake…
Thoughts for the New Year
by Joseph Morris While writing this column at the end of October, I was thinking about the past year. According to NOAA (parent organization for the weather service), 2022 was another warm year. For example, September 2022 tied with last…
Shir Shalom & the Environment – What the Supreme Court Decision on the EPA Means
by Joe Morris In late June, the Supreme Court issued a ruling that the existing Clean Air Act only applies to reducing coal plants’ emissions and not mandating their replacement. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the conservative majority: “Capping carbon dioxide emissions at…
Goldilocks and Genesis
by Joseph Morris NASA recently announced that it has discovered over 5000 exoplanets, planets that are outside our solar system. There are many different types, including huge Jupiter-size worlds too close to their stars with surface temperatures of 2500oF. While…
WNY Winters
Did you read that opinion piece in the Dec. 31 NY Times that illustrated the impact of climate change already occurring across the world? It was written in the form of 193 fictitious postcards from around the world depicting already-happening-…
Ecology and Climate Change
I don’t know if you caught the NY Times article about a Ms. Malmberg who travels the west offering her goat herd to help restore fire-ravaged land and to prevent future wildfires. Goats eat the type of vegetation that cows and sheep…
Teddy and the Morality of Conservation
by Joseph Morris “And to lose the chance to see frigatebirds soaring in circles above the storm, or a file of pelicans winging their way homeward across the crimson afterglow of the sunset, or a myriad terns flashing in the…
Climate Change and Colder Winters by Joseph Morris
I came across an interesting article about climate change/global warming in the December 2019 issue of the magazine, Astronomy. It was discussing something called Rossby Waves, a weather/climate phenomenon in Earth’s atmosphere. In relation to this phenomenon, the article contained a…
Climate Change and Colder Winters
by Joe Morris I came across an interesting article about climate change/global warming in the December 2019 issue of the magazine, Astronomy. It was discussing something called Rossby Waves, a weather/climate phenomenon in Earth’s atmosphere. In relation to this phenomenon, the…