Regarding my previous post, it seems Google is fine deleting text on my Blogger site then pretending it didn't. It seems strange Google appears afraid of a salmon fishing poet, with no financial backing, writing about our climate emergency. Free hosting was good, but not good enough to accept what appears to be sneaky deletions about climate matters of huge importance I included from Dr. Ira Leifer, Chemical Engineering Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, who was "chief mission coordinating scientist for the NASA effort for airborne remote sensing of the Gulf oil spill" according George Foulsham's May 27, 2010 artcle in The Current at UC Santa Barbara.
I migrated this Trees, Fish, and Dreams Climateblog site to climhub.org. My first post there was "Solastalgia Blues," May 5, 2024; my second post was "I’ll Make It Simple," May 15, 2024; my third post was "Developed Nations Are Like Gollum," June 3, 2024; my fourth post was "A Shut Off AMOC (Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation Driven by a North/South Saltwater Density Pump) “is a Distaster We Need to Avoid at All Costs” says Stefan Rahmstorf, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research & Professor of Physics of the Oceans," June 7, 2024; my fifth post was "Defining Success," June 13, 2024; my sixth post was "I Know a Guy Who Put More Care into Choosing a Fly Rod Than a Wife," June 19, 2024; my seventh post was "Yellow Raincoat," June 25, 2024; my eighth post was "250 Trillion Dollars or Bust (Probably Bust)," July 11, 2024; my ninth post was "Surfing Into Oblivion," July 23, 2024; my tenth post was "Recalling 'CD ROM Drive or Cup Holder?' Joke," August 1, 2024; my eleventh post was "'Rate of Change. Rate of Change. Rate of Change.' Let’s All Sing Together," August 5, 2024; my twelfth post was "Openings — Guest Post by Tim Fox," August 12, 2024; my thirteenth post was "While They Differ on Outcome, Rockström and McPherson Have Similar Warnings," August 16, 2024; my fourteenth post was "Was a River," September 20, 2024; and my fifteenth post was "'Curiouser and Curiouser!' said Alice in Wonderland," November 4, 2024.
The new site is a work-in-progress as I am transferring 10 years of posts, adding translation icons, and updating links to make everything work there. Many older links at climhub.org are broken because each one must be fixed manually. I would have preferred not to do all this work, to find suitable plugins, and pay for private hosting, but writers and artists generally don't like to be apparently edited by a multinational corporation without permission.
I will continue to praise those deserving, and criticize others as needed. In the past eight months, I criticized climate luminaries John Kerry, Johan Rockström, and David Wallace-Wells. The stakes are getting higher fast as evidenced by Jillian Ambrose, The Guardian Energy correspondent, reporting April 30 2024, "G7 agree to end use of unabated coal power plants by 2035" with allowance "for countries that are heavily reliant on coal, such as Japan and Germany, by offering the option of 'a timeline [for them] consistent with keeping a limit of 1.5C' of global warming above pre-industrial levels."
Damian Carrington, Environment editor at The Guardian, showed the present challenge in "We asked 380 top climate scientists what they felt about the future... They are terrified, but determined to keep fighting. Here’s what they said," amended May 10, 2024. Carrington wrote climate scientist Ruth Cerezo-Mota "expects the world to heat by a catastrophic 3C this century, soaring past the internationally agreed 1.5C target and delivering enormous suffering to billions of people. This is her optimistic view, she says. [ . . . . ] Cerezo-Mota is far from alone in her fear. An exclusive Guardian survey of hundreds of the world’s leading climate experts has found that: 77% of respondents believe global temperatures will reach at least 2.5C above preindustrial levels, a devastating degree of heating; [and] almost half – 42% – think it will be more than 3C."
Here are "Two Charts Showing What 2 C, 3 C, 4 C, and 5 C Mean [ . . . ]" and one of my most-visited posts about "4 °C over pre-industrial level" titled "A Good Time to Pray [ . . . ]"
I'm grateful readers in 110 countries view this blog, and I hope they will view climhub.org for my future posts.
