Tag: Huck Fairman
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SOLUTIONS 8/14: Our String of Disasters
By Huck Fairman How bad is it? Three years ago, the NY Times reported, FEMA had been managing 27 “major disasters” around the country, with a staff of approximately 10,000. Recently the number of disasters has doubled, not counting the pandemic, but the FEMA staff has only increased by a third. Last week’s hurricane, Isaias,…
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SOLUTIONS 8/7: THREATS AND ADAPTATIONS
By Huck Fairman Princeton University climate scientist, Dr. Michael Oppenheimer, has been looking at the possible impacts from ocean level rise, storm surges, higher tides and breaking waves. He acknowledges that modeling estimates for these coastal changes is not easy because of the many uncertainties. For instance, predicting the height of and the destruction from…
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SOLUTIONS 7/17: Our Changing World
By Huck Fairman A tropical storm came ashore near Atlantic City and blew up along much of the Mid-Atlantic coast, flooding roads and fields. High temperatures and humidity blanketed the East and other regions of the country. This, according to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) and other weather and climate predictions, around the world,…
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SOLUTIONS 7/3: The Coming Costs
By Huck Fairman Along with the spreading of the coronavirus, this country is facing a range of destructive changes from the climate crisis. And, not as widely recognized, the climate crisis is also resulting in escalating costs. NOAA warned last year that we faced 14 weather and climate calamities, each costing over $1 billion dollars…
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SOLUTIONS 6/26: Plastics everywhere in the warming air
By Huck Fairman A new report published in the journal, SCIENCE, warned that microplastics are everywhere, not only in the planet’s waterbodies but in the air we breathe. Tons of tiny plastic fragments rain down around the globe. Research has found evidence of airborne particles in Europe, China, the Arctic and the western United States.…
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SOLUTIONS 6/12: Fighting Trump’s Fuel-Efficiency Rollbacks
By Huck Fairman Having watched President Donald Trump’s denials, delays, lies and wild forays into questionable medicine, as well as his appointing law-breaking, self-serving, incompetent cabinet members and department heads, to list only a few of his transgressions, it should be no surprise that his administration continues to try to undo the largest effort by…
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SOLUTIONS 5/15: Community or Company Aggregation
By Huck Fairman As a long time Princeton resident, I have been interested in, and have written a number of, Packet opinion pieces on the climate crisis. I have reported on the ideas and policies recommended by a range of scientists and specialists. Recently, the Municipality of Princeton has announced a new plan to switch…
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SOLUTIONS 5/1: Renewable Energy Supply – A Tale of Two Rates
By Huck Fairman The Town of Princeton has admirably drawn up a number of steps to reduce the cost and the emissions, or pollution, stemming from power generation and usage, along with that from vehicles. These initiatives are joined together in the Princeton Climate Action Plan. Part of that plan was to provide residents with…
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SOLUTIONS 4/24: The Other Crisis
By Huck Fairman While we are contending with the coronavirus, we have another, potentially more devastating crisis looming, one that we are already well into. This is, of course, the climate crisis that has been impacting much of the world for a number of years now. Our primary source for measuring global climate trends, NOAA…
