Posted on 01/22/2023 9:11:36 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Toni Santana-Ros is an asteroid hunter.
At nightfall, after the final scenes of fiery clouds and flamingo sunbeams fade to black, he peers up at the sky to watch space rocks swimming along our solar system's gravitational tides.
Occasionally, he catches one on a crash course with our delicate blue orb.
Last year, Santana-Ros, a planetary scientist at the University of Alicante in Spain, sprung into action when astronomers realized an asteroid named 2022 WJ1 was headed straight for the border of Canada and the United States. With barely four hours on the clock, he mustered his team to help pinpoint how menacing this asteroid would be.
But what if such a time-sensitive asteroid warning had been sent out in November of 2020, when Santana-Ros' telescopes were shut down because of bushfires ravaging the region and covering lenses with inky layers of ash? Or in February of 2021, when bushfire debris made its way into some telescopes, forcing astronomers to dismount instruments and pull blobs of soot from them after the wind settled?
"Climate change is already affecting astronomy and my work," Santana-Ros said.
Over the last few decades, climate change has altered our relationship with Earth.
Global industries still burn coal to make cheap power, diffuse dangerous fossil fuel waste into the atmosphere, force our planet to heat up, and ultimately fuel devastation like the wildfires responsible for the interruption of Santana-Ros' research. Meanwhile, scientists are trying to learn how to shelter endangered animals left without homes because deforestation has ruined wildlife habitats.
It's almost like we aren't part of our planet anymore, no longer blended into its environment like the oak trees and butterflies with which we share cosmic material. It's as if we're fighting to regain our rightful place as Earthlings.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnet.com ...
What tripe.
Poor forestry managment under drought conditions is not “climate change”.
B.S.
Then again, it could not.
Climate Change. Is there anything it can’t do?
You mean like rocketing Hillary Clinton skyward between us and our Muvver Earf??
How Climutt Chains can take your brain from you…
In 2020 she published a story in an on-line publishing site called Thought Catalog; the title of the (very short) story is If I Tell You What Happened To Hannah, Will You Finally Let Me Rest?
Thought Catalog categorized the story as "Creepy Fiction."
At the end of the story, Monisha describes herself using these words:
"Philosophy Enthusiast. I spend my days overanalyzing things."
Here is a link, if you'd like to read her embarrassing drivel.
I’d settle for “climate change” taking Al Gore and his lefty fellow charlatans.
The reporterette graduated with A BA in Philosophy in 2018, and is now an expert on atmospheric science and astronomy.
[rolls eyes]
Yup!
(((YAWN))) The sky is falling!
Yesterday was warm and sunny. Today is cold and rainy. Oh no, what have we done!!!
Climate Change Hysterics could take our rights from us.
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