Climate Monitor

The more cryptocurrency mining operations across the United States, the greater the strain on the electrical grid that serves the nation. And with the proliferation of digital mining, the greater the threat to our declining climate unless these power plants can be fueled by non-fossil fuel energy sources. 

CarbonCaptureFlorida.net is a new resource exploring the pros and cons of carbon dioxide sequestration. This promo audio explains more about what the dynamic site, produced by Climate Monitor, has to offer.  Credit: Cinematic Time Lapse by Lexin_Music on Pixabay. 

This episode explores the interaction between rising sea levels and the hydrodynamic forces which affect coastal buildings. Our guest is Ricardo Alvarez, an internationally acclaimed expert and consultant who focuses on the performance of the built environment in the context of vulnerability to natural hazards such as hurricanes. Recorded on 11.12.22, this interview is especially important for architects, engineers, city planners, legislators, and condominium board members. For more information about Ricardo Alvarez, please visit the Episode Notes section on ClimateMonitor.net.  Your host is Mitchell Chester, a greenhouse gas reduction advocate. Music credit: The incredible Lexin Music via Pixabay. Do you have a show idea? Contact the Editor at ClimateMonitor.net. 

The convergence of a warming climate and intense weather has impacts on many dimensions of society. Resilience means much more than just engineering, architecture and physics, it also includes strategies to adapt emergency management and public health to help in the aftermath of disasters which are linked to a warming world.  This Climate Monitor episode focuses on a new and exciting potential solution...mobile charging centers that can be quickly deployed to areas which suffer unexpected power outages including hurricane impacted areas, tornado-stricken communities and whole towns scorched by wildfires.  Welcome to a bi-directional reality. You host is Mitchell Chester, a greenhouse gas reduction advocate.  Music credit: The incredible Lexin Music via Pixabay. Show notes: CanaryMedia.com Businesswire.com Mobilityhouse.com/usa_en

In 2009, Al Gore, writing in his book “Our Choice,” presented an optimistic vision of wind power, and how it can be harnessed in the race to save us from the degrading effects of greenhouse gas emissions. Mr. Gore explained that wind farms, with multiple windmills, can be added on a scalable basis. He described how windmills can be built, and installed, within 2 months. With low maintenance and long durability, a compelling case was made for wind energy, especially ocean-based wind turbines, where winds are usually stronger than on land. In this episode of Climate Monitor, we present a report entitled, Global offshore wind industry takes huge strides, by Paul Brown of the Climate News Network. This episode contains his August 12, 2020 report from London, and shows how far the industry has advanced since Mr. Gore's book.   This report was published by the Climate News Network, which can be found at ClimateNewsNetwork.net. The Climate News Network is a free and objective service publishing a daily news story on climate and energy issues. You can sign up for Climate News Network.net reports to be sent the latest articles straight to your Inbox. You can also support the network by contributing on their website. If you like these podcasts, please let us know and tell your contacts. The email address is mchester@climatemonitor.tv. I’m Mitch Chester. Please join us next time.

The effects and consequences of an altered climate can be surprising and starkly brutal. Too often humans worry about their own futures and give little thought to how animals cope with an increasingly threatened planet. Sure, those that pay attention hear about species extinction, but rarely do we actually listen to the stark reality of heat, greenhouse gases and drought like in the report we will share shortly in this podcast.

What if there was a way Florida homeowners, businesses, drivers and grocery shoppers could help pay for a strategy to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and keep a significant percentage of it in our soil? Now there is.  With the sequestration bank, every Floridian can do something for mere pennies about global warming mitigation. Authored and moderated by Mitchell Chester, Esq., a Climate Activist. For more posts on Climate Change and Sea Level Rise, please visit the InvadingSea.com.

How do you identify climate refugees? And is climate change at the heart of the flow of asylum-seekers? Statistics can offer a cautious answer.  A report from London's Climate News Network, written by veteran journalist Tim Radford, on January 25, 2019. For more reports from the Climate News Network visit ClimateNewsNetwork.net. For video reports, news, information, research and interviews, please visit ClimateMonitor.tv or visit the Channel on RokuTV and Amazon Fire TV with Alexa. 

Some governments take global warming seriously, while others defy the science and virtually ignore it. The Climate Change  Resisters' League names names. A report by Kieran Cooks, of the Climate News Network, from London, on January 8, 2019. For more reports, visit ClimateNewsNetwork.net and visit Climate Monitor on Roku and Amazon Fire TV/Alexa, or on our website at ClimateMonitor.tv. 

New research confirms again that nature knows best. The US could cut a fifth of its greenhouse gas emissions through better land use. A report by Tim Radford, of the Climate News Network in London, on December 7, 2018. For more climate reports, please visit ClimateNewsNetwork.net or visit Climate Monitor TV on Roku and Amazon streaming TV platforms. We are also on the web at ClimateMonitor.tv.

A video summary of the dramatic U.S. Government's just-released Fourth National Climate Assessment, Vol. II. Hear the main summaries of the critical findings, and how every segment of American life is being touched and threatened by climate change and its multiple dimensions. Produced by Climate Monitor Media, Inc. 11.26.18.

Climate impacts aren’t just potentially catastrophic: they could be simultaneous multiple disasters. US scientists have compiled a catalog of calamity and a map of mayhem. A report by Tim Radford, from London, via ClimateNewsNetwork.net. Nov. 20, 2019. An audio version of the video report posted on Climate Monitor TV platforms (Roku TV, Alexa Fire TV/Alexa and ClimateMonitor.tv) on November 22, 2018.

Greenhouse gas emissions impose a social cost- in ecosystem damage, in climate extremes, and in human health and wealth. The United States is impacted more than you might think.

Waterlogged hillsides are dangerous. For those who live on them or further downhill, they can be deadly. The global risk of landslides is rising. A report by Tim Radford, of the Climate News Network, from London, September 3, 2018. Read by Mitch Chester.

With each construction permit, local governments and private landowners are creating dangerous conditions in coastal regions that will further endanger our oceans and future generations. Commentary by Mitchell Chester of Climate Monitor.

To cool the world and also boost plant growth, geo-engineered crops might do the trick. But if they work by dimming the sunlight, the plants will suffer. A report by Tim Radford, of the Climate News Network, from London, August 13, 2018. Narrated by Mitch Chester.

China’s falling emissions of greenhouse gases offer optimism that moves to curb global temperature rise may be starting to work. A report by Kieran Cooke, of the Climate News Network, from London, July 12, 2018.

In 80 years the rising seas cost may be $27 trillion dollars globally, with the oceans possibly nearing two meters about their present levels. A report by Alex Kirby of the ClimateNewsNetwork.net, from London, July 4, 2018.

New fuel from C02, the source of all fossil fuels, can help to slow climate change. A report by Tim Radford, of ClimateNewsNetwork.net, from London, on June 27, 2018.

A warmer world could mean shrinking harvests and a more meager diet for millions of people, according to two new studies. A report from the ClimateNewsNetwork.net, by Tim Radford, from London, June 19, 2018.