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Transportation Adaptation to Climate Change

Without radical climate-change adaptations, movement of people and goods will soon become severely limited. Recent studies estimate that climate-related damage to transportation infrastructure could exceed $1 trillion by 2050. #ClimateAdaptation #TransportResilience Transforming Transportation for a Changing World The accelerating deterioration of Earth’s biosphere demands fundamental changes…

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This is a trial application of my methods booklet on Romance Short Stories. True climate-change fiction.

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Intersection Of Human Environmental Solutions and Impacts

The fundamental question of whether humanity’s environmental solutions will overtake and halt its environmental destruction in time to preserve human civilization is the subject of intense scientific debate. An analysis of peer-reviewed research on climate change and its effects on human civilization suggests that while positive developments in technology and policy may prevent the absolute…

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Developments in Resilient Communications Adaptations

As climate disasters escalate, novel tech is revolutionizing crisis response. From AI-driven networks to quantum-secured satellites, innovative systems are ensuring connectivity when disasters occur. #ResilientTech #ClimateReady The global push for climate-resilient communication has entered a new era, driven by AI innovation and space-age technology. In 2024, the European Union unveiled its €20…

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Developments in Resilient Communications Adaptations

As climate disasters escalate, novel tech is revolutionizing crisis response. From AI-driven networks to quantum-secured satellites, innovative systems are ensuring connectivity when disasters occur. #ResilientTech #ClimateReady The global push for climate-resilient communication has entered a new era, driven by AI innovation and space-age technology. In 2024, the European Union unveiled its €20…

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Advances in Resilient Communications Adaptations

As climate disasters escalate, novel tech is revolutionizing crisis response. From AI-driven networks to quantum-secured satellites, innovative systems are ensuring connectivity when disasters occur. #ResilientTech #ClimateReady The global push for climate-resilient communication has entered a new era, driven by AI innovation and space-age technology. In 2024, the European Union unveiled its €20…

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Communications Systems Adaptations

As natural disasters intensify, our communication systems require fundamental transformation. There is an urgent need for resilient communication networks that can withstand environmental pressures. #ClimateAdaptation #CommunityResilience Adapting Communication Systems for an Uncertain Future The accelerating deterioration of Earth’s biosphere presents unprecedented challenges for maintaining…

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AI Comparison

Comparing ChatGPT, Claude, DeepSeek, and Gemini

For a project we are into, I compared results from latest available versions of ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek on one of the project tasks. The results were similar, but DS was slightly better. And, before responding, DS lays out it’s preliminary thought process in conversational style that is entertaining verging on hilarious! https://chatgpt.comhttps://claude.ai…

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Comments on the State of the World

The blog, Collapse of Industrial Civilization, has been exploring critical topics for more than a decade. This post is concerned with accelerating disasters. Along with commentary and graphics, it includes a particularly revealing chart: “. . . the most current chart showing the upward trajectory of billion-dollar weather disasters for the US, from 1980 through 2024.” Click on the title in the…

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Corr Syl Chapter 5 is Posted

Here's the next installment on Ghost.

The latest Corr Syl chapter, No. 5, is now available on this page. Chapter 5 is the last of the free trial chapters. Chapters 1 through 5 will remain available to all visitors, but Chapter 6 and on to story end will be available only to you rather intelligent paid subscribers on this page beginning next week. There’s a picture of Rhya Bright’s current appearance, and I added Ivanstor Johns’…

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Corr Syl Chapter 5 is Available

The latest Corr Syl chapter, No. 5, is now available on this page. Chapter 5 is the last of the free trial chapters. Chapters 1 through 5 will remain available to all visitors, but Chapter 6 and on to story end will be available only to you rather intelligent paid subscribers on this page beginning next week. There’s a picture of Rhya Bright’s current appearance, and I added Ivanstor Johns’…

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The New AFOSA Website

Welcome to the new AFOSA website

Welcome to our new Internet home. Discover new ideas and find opportunities to contribute to our projects. 2024 is going to be a busy year. We’ve been coasting along producing an occasional book and short reviews of nature-conservation topics. But thanks to the interest and invitations of scientists with the U. S. Forest Service, Arizona’s three universities, and members of the Association for…

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Sharing the Earth

Half for Nature

Dr. Helen Kopnina (photo: Springer Nature)

As we age and grow more familiar with our surroundings, the limits of the Earth begin to appear through the clouds of our experience and reactions. When I think of the Voyager Golden Records travelling into the Cosmos for the past 43 years, I wonder if some alien species will one day trace humanity’s greetings back to a barren planet no…

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Birds of Coldwater Farm

Introduction My Birds of Coldwater Farm is complete at last. It is an illustrated guide to 146 bird species seen at Coldwater Farm during the first two decades of the Twenty-first Century. I included photographs, conservation status, and comments on species abundance trends at the Farm. Keywords:  Birds, Coldwater Farm, Dewey-Humboldt, Arizona, Conservation, Natural History.

The book’s primary…

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Postscript: The Time is Growing Short

Postscript: The Time is Growing Short

POSTCRIPT

I published the blog post below in 2017. It discusses a scientific analysis and climate-change warning published in the journal Nature. The critical element of the scientists’ conclusion was the absolutely necessity to begin immediately reducing CO2 emissions. Progress was pinned to six milestones that had to be reached by 2020. Here we are in 2020. Unfortunately, global CO2…

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Legal Tools & Links For the Conservation of Nature

Legal Tools & Links For the Conservation of Nature

Yesterday, a visitor sent an email containing corrections and additions for my Legal Tools & Links page. So much appreciated, I made the changes and checked a few other sites too. It occurred that something more helpful than alphabetization would be helpful. Okay, that’s on my to-do list. Any suggestions would be most welcome (the image is from the scclegal website).

Thank you.

Garry