Episode 177 – Gaia’s PISSED!

Alberta, Canada’s Horse River wildfire aka the Fort McMurray wildfire: 458 days long, 589,522 hectares / 2276.15717 square miles burned. (750km / 466 miles from Dalan)

Houston, Texas, United States of America

Hurricane Harvey – Cat 4 at landfall (First since 2004) Sustained wind speed 209 Kph / 130 mph Wind gusts to 233 Kph / 145 Mph plus tornadoes 1.27 Meters / 50 Inches of rain in under a week.

Bahamas & Eastern Seaboard, United States of America

Hurricane Irene – Cat 3 at Bahamas / Cat 1 at US Upwards of 15 Inches / of rainfall Waves up to 3.7 M / 12 ft $16.6 billion in damage

If this is going to be ‘The New Normal’, what can WE do?

#5MFS ‘…but SHOULD you?’

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(Show Notes)

XKCD “Earth Temperature Timeline”

AlbinoBlackSheep “End of Ze World!”

Ad Council “Make This Land Good Again”

Ad Council “Pollution: Keep America Beautiful”

Science News “Watch antibiotic resistance evolve”