Monthly Archives: December 2022

Desalination, long term solution to Drought

Posted on December 26, 2022 by borderslynn

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/countries-who-rely-on-desalination.html From the above map we learn Saudi Arabia has the most desalination plants in the world: “eight plants using the reverse osmosis technology and 12 using the multi-stage distillation process. The country has the largest floating desalination plant in … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged climate change, conflict, desalination, desertification, drought, famine, food security, multi-stage flash, reverse osmosis, solutions | Leave a comment

Wobbly polar vortex threat

Posted on December 25, 2022 by borderslynn

How a wobbly polar vortex brings cold weather “Judah Cohen, a climatologist at MIT and the director of seasonal forecasting at Atmospheric and Environmental Research, told Newsweek that, as average global temperatures rise, winter temperatures are increasing at a slower rate than … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged arctic warming, climate change, energy outages, extreme weather, flooding, food insecurity, hypothermia, polar vortex, road accidents, sudden freezing, threat to life, uninhabitable earth, wildlife deaths, winter storm | Leave a comment

Servers that gobble electricity

Posted on December 19, 2022 by borderslynn

Many billions of us now depend on internet servers to carry out the most vital to the most trivial day to day human involvement. Like the air we breathe, we expect it to be there. But there are many threats … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged crypto mining, environmental health, excessive energy requirements, fossil fuels, global networks, internet servers, noise pollution, power plants, security, uninterrupted power requirement, water cooling requirements | Leave a comment

Air Quality: particulate pollution

Posted on December 11, 2022 by borderslynn

Check out how safe your air is today in your part of the world by consulting this constantly updating map: https://aqicn.org/map/world Then consider, on top of many pollutants you know about, the one called ‘particulate pollutants. Definition below from: https://www.toppr.com/guides/chemistry/environmental-chemistry/particulate-pollutants … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged aerosol clouds, air quality index, heart and lung impact from pollution, human activity causing harm, nitrates, PM2.5, pollution in one country carried to another, precipitation, respiratory illness, ultrafine particles, wind direction | Leave a comment

Wines and Spirits Industries: the realities of climate change

Posted on December 6, 2022 by borderslynn

Around the world people are taking on the challenges of climate change. If they are to continue in their historic industries they must experiment but time is not on their side. Cooperation and sharing knowledge globally is a necessity to … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged biodegradable, bottles, climate change, Colorado River, levees, oceans, plastics, proactive solutions, sea levels rising, shrinking freshwater supplies, spirits, water use, Wine | Leave a comment