Congratulations on your newsletters. I like the way you ease your way into the serious text by starting with you and Buddy telling a personal story. The kayak introduction was perfect, backed up by the photograph of Bowen's Wharf flooded by the Sandy Storm.
The concentration on Newport and how it is being affected by climate change is great, too, and, of course, the rest of the factual information about how changes in climate will influence the planet and our lives.
The only problem is getting into your site to write my comments, that's why I am sending you this email. I have great difficulty remembering passwords and get sidelined by things like "Substack," whatever that is. Sorry to be so old-fashioned and dumb but I fear I am closer to the quill world than the digital age.
I realize the email version of the letter makes it hard to leave a comment. If you simply go to your search engine and put climatedog.substack.com into the search box, then click "Let me read it first," that should bring up the online home of the newsletter which accepts comments. The latest letter will be on top, but you can scroll down to see earlier letters.
I am from down south and have seen real hurricanes. My family's homes in Pass Christian, Mississippi and New Orleans were flooded by hurricanes Camille and Katrina with storm tides of 25 and 28 feet. The rising and warming oceans due to climate change sooner or later will send real hurricanes up to our northeast coast. Sandy wasn't even a minimum hurricane north of NJ.
The issue of sewer systems and septic systems is critical and in places with big time commercial agriculture, animal manure is also an issue. Maybe we all need composting toilets, and to move back from the coast. In fact moving back from the coast might be the best thing as if we start an orderly retreat we can salvage more building materials than if we wait for the storm surges to destroy everything.
I agree, Greg. Hilary, Buddy and I are considering just that. With 29 percent of the U.S. population living in coastal counties, we may want to go soon - to avoid the rush.
David:
Congratulations on your newsletters. I like the way you ease your way into the serious text by starting with you and Buddy telling a personal story. The kayak introduction was perfect, backed up by the photograph of Bowen's Wharf flooded by the Sandy Storm.
The concentration on Newport and how it is being affected by climate change is great, too, and, of course, the rest of the factual information about how changes in climate will influence the planet and our lives.
The only problem is getting into your site to write my comments, that's why I am sending you this email. I have great difficulty remembering passwords and get sidelined by things like "Substack," whatever that is. Sorry to be so old-fashioned and dumb but I fear I am closer to the quill world than the digital age.
Keep up the good work.
Cheers,
John de St. Jorre
I realize the email version of the letter makes it hard to leave a comment. If you simply go to your search engine and put climatedog.substack.com into the search box, then click "Let me read it first," that should bring up the online home of the newsletter which accepts comments. The latest letter will be on top, but you can scroll down to see earlier letters.
I am from down south and have seen real hurricanes. My family's homes in Pass Christian, Mississippi and New Orleans were flooded by hurricanes Camille and Katrina with storm tides of 25 and 28 feet. The rising and warming oceans due to climate change sooner or later will send real hurricanes up to our northeast coast. Sandy wasn't even a minimum hurricane north of NJ.
The issue of sewer systems and septic systems is critical and in places with big time commercial agriculture, animal manure is also an issue. Maybe we all need composting toilets, and to move back from the coast. In fact moving back from the coast might be the best thing as if we start an orderly retreat we can salvage more building materials than if we wait for the storm surges to destroy everything.
I agree, Greg. Hilary, Buddy and I are considering just that. With 29 percent of the U.S. population living in coastal counties, we may want to go soon - to avoid the rush.