Garry Rogers

LATEST ARTICLES ( 2813 )

• Ocean Farmers Make “Climate March by Sea”

  

  GR: The premise of the article below is that warming oceans are destroying marine ecosystems and eliminating fish-harvesting jobs. It’s about jobs, and... Read more

  Posted on 27 April 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Trump’s Climate Cuts Will Add Millions of Extra Tons of CO2 to the Air

  

  GR: Even if the next U. S. president reverses Trump’s policies, there will still be a large quantity of extra greenhouse-gas emissions. Read more

  Posted on 26 April 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Celebrate World Penguin Day by Taking Action

  

  GR: Here’s another opportunity to lend your support to nature conservation. Join the #Antarctica2020 movement! “In October 2016, the 25 member governments that... Read more

  Posted on 25 April 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Trump to Launch Unprecedented Attack on National Monuments

  

  GR: To add profits for a few companies, Donald Trump is willing to abandon protections for public lands that took years to get. In this action, Trump is just a... Read more

  Posted on 25 April 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Plastic-eating Bugs? It’s a Great Story – but There’s a Sting in the Tail

  

  GR: People have often tried to import species to solve problems or increase productivity. Many times, unintended consequences have proven disastrous as the... Read more

  Posted on 25 April 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Pollution From Canada’s Oil Sands May Be Underreported

  

  GR: Almost every day, we learn that the many forces contributing to climate change are more powerful than we thought, or we learn that they are occurring... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• How a Warming Planet Drives Human Migration

  

  GR: Thoughts on Climate Change The climate news today (and really every day now) is not good. The Times article below focuses on just one of the bad bits. Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• A Spectacular Thug Is Out of Control

  

  GR: As I’ve often reported, only construction and total habitat destruction have done as much as invasive plants and animals to reduce global biodiversity and... Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2017 ENVIRONMENT

• Prescott, Arizona History: Prescott Used to Have Countless Prairie Dogs

  

  GR: People have eradicated inconvenient social groups and wildlife many times; it’s what we do. We haven’t prevented the growth of our own population, but we... Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Under the Arctic Dome — Brutish High Pressure System is Wrecking the Already...

  

  GR: Arctic warming and polar ice cap melting are proceeding as predicted. The predictions should have alarmed our governments. The reality is going to be... Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Butterflies and Moths of Yavapai County, Arizona

  

  My Butterfly and Moth Checklist, Yavapai County, Arizona is complete. The book includes species lists from the Butterflies and Moths of North America (BAMONA)... Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Trump’s Climate-hoax Demands Roil U.S. Allies

  

  GR: The U. S. is not a leader in global efforts to stop climate change. Under Bannon and the conservative Congress, the U. S. has become the leader in retreat... Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Disastrous 2016 Shows British Butterflies Are ‘failing to Cope’ with Climate...

  

  GR: Butterflies and other pollinators seem to be in steep decline around my home in Dewey-Humboldt, Yavapai County, Arizona. Monarch, Morning Cloak, and... Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Earth’s Melting Permafrost Threatens to Unleash a Dangerous Climate Feedback Loop

  

  GR: Here are some additional comments on the expanded permafrost-melt findings I reported this morning. That study did not project the effect on global... Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Global Warming Could Thaw Far More Permafrost Than Expected

  

  GR: Here’s your daily dose of bad news for climate change. This study doesn’t consider the effect of the increased permafrost thaw. However, we know that... Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• 2017’s Warming Climate Produces Unprecedented Floods Across the Globe

  

  GR: More CO2, more warming, more evaporation, and more extreme storms. “A robust result, consistent across climate model projections, is that higher... Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Glaciers Melting in Glacier National Park

  

  GR: Scientists have used repeated photographs to study glaciers for more than a century (Rogers et al. 1984). Arthur Johnson published the earliest... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• An Armada of Icebergs Has Just Invaded The North Atlantic

  

  GR: Swarms of icebergs are another symptom of global warming that we meet as we cross the threshold of accelerated change. RobertScribbler reports on the comple... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor Introduces New Technology for Fast-Charging,...

  

  GR: I missed this story earlier, but it is worth repeating. Batteries that cost less, store more energy, charge faster, last longer, and safer when exhausted.... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Have You Checked Out Our FOIA Repository? – ClimateWest

  

  GR: Being a republic certainly has benefits. Jeremy Nichols provides links for WildEarth Guardians’ Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and results. “We... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2017 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT