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Saint Elmo strikes Sky Hopper Kermit!: Climate Change 16-22 February 2020

Incomplete list of links to news articles concerning climate change events during the days of 16 to 22 of the Gregorian month of February 2020.

What are climate zones?

Extreme weather is the cause of most human migration

The irony of being a climate refugee; refugee settlements are even more vulnerable to extreme weather 

Child brides as a way of surviving climate change?

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Rare weather phenomenon Saint Elmo’s Fire ‘captured’ by hurricane hunter Sky Hopper Kermit in North Atlantic:

CHINA: 5.0 quake hits Tibet

5.1 quake hits Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region

GERMANY: Tesla committing tree genocide in name of building gigafactory!

INDIA:  Climate refugees surge amid floods, droughts

KAZAKHSTAN: Promises U.S.$638-million to fight unstoppable climate change

MEXICO: Farmers adapt to climate change by changing crops

RUSSIA:   Pre-historic bird found in Siberia proves climate change is normal: “These remains are of great interest to paleontology since they enable a better understanding of the impact of climate change …”

SOUTH AFRICA: WX alerts issued for severe storms across the country

Three people killed in freak storm

SPAIN: TSUNAMI could rock Andalucia ‘as soon as TOMORROW’ as government prepares emergency plan

UNITED STATES: If President Trump is so anti-climate change why did he authorize Department of Commerce’s NOAA (National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration) to triple  computing capacity, storage space, and interconnect speed of its Weather and Climate Operational Supercomputing System? 

NOAA also reported that despite climate change fear mongers, the U.S. fishing industry is reeling in higher numbers of fish!

 Ice Volcanoes on Great Lakes

Alabama; Fort Morgan residents fed up with illegal dumping, trash piles along road

Florida; Saint Augustine tries out solar powered trash/recycling cans

Tallahassee jacks up curbside recycling rates

Indiana; Town of Lapel wants to jack-up trash/recycling fees by 24%

Maryland; Gaithersburg jacks-up recycling fees 20%

Massachusetts;  City of Greenfield jacks-up trash collection fees

Michigan; The state experienced an 8.5% increase in trash piling up in landfills, here’s a list of where it’s coming from and just how much money the state is actually making from collecting trash

Minnesota; State inspectors report that more and more trash, human waste, and even fish that were caught, are being left on the ice by people going ice fishing, it all ends up in the water

Recycling center burns for days, sending toxic smoke into the air

Mississippi; After the Pearl River flood, mountains of trash

New York; City of Troy will attempt to stop illegal trash dumping with security cameras

Ohio; Despite competitive bidding on trash hauling contract, residents of Dayton will still pay more

Pennsylvania; Logistics company wants state-mandated curbside recycling program to stop accepting plastics, basically it costs more to transport plastics than what the plastics are worth!

Are Lehigh Valley towns actually recycling or have local programs quietly ended?

Increase in roadside trash being blamed on trash hauling companies?

Texas; Rice University finds way to turn worthless trash into money making graphene

City of Austin rejects trash collect contract, could refuse (reject) refuse (trash) service to local taxpayers

Washington DC; FEMA warns citizens to prep for catastrophic disasters now

Climate Change, 09-15 February 2020: CAPITALISM KILLS RECYCLING?

Pacific Ring  of Fire, 16-22 February 2020: FIRST DEATHS CAUSED BY FRACKING!