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Notes From an Environmentalist; Wonderful weekend! NE basks in 90 degree weather, while temperatures reach 124 in Palm Springs 127 in Death Valley. Hard to deny such global warming.

Notes From an Environmentalist. Plum Island Beach walk this Sunday.

Notes From an Environmentalist. Our Ipswich friend and neighbor Teddie Cadogan lost his home in Negril Jamaica to Hurricane Beryl.

Notes from an Environmentalist. 100 degree temperatures for many in U.S. while Beryl Barrels toward Texas.

Notes From an Environmentalist. Hurricane Beryl Barreling toward Jamaica.

Notes from an Environmentalist; Beryl sets record as earliest Cat-5 hurricane in history.

Notes From an Environmentalist; Birds, Bugs and Daylight, the Evolution of Migration.

Notes From an Environmentalist. "Hold a chick, milk a cow." Get Avian flu? The Topsfield Fair.

Notes from an Environmentalist; Weather looks good for tomorrow's Plum Island Beach walk.

Notes from an Environmentalist; Debating Politics and Economy while the World Burns.

Notes from an Environmentalist. Carnivorous Tiger Swallowtails. Well they are Canadian.

Notes from an Environmentalist. MA bill to increase clean energy production.

Notes from an Environmentalist; Winter storms created this natural weir which is slowing erosion on Plum Island Massachusetts.

Notes From an Environmentalist. Strange Golden Orb spotted over the Crane estate in Ipwich, Massachusetts.

Notes from an Environmentalist. Vineyard Wind becomes largest offshore wind operation.

Notes from an Environmentalist. The Army Corps is Right. Forget the Gyre Build the Plum Island weir.

Notes from an Environmentalist. DARPA funds research to protect coastal homes.

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Notes From an Environmentalist. Feeding wild foxes is like signing their death warrent.

Notes from an Environmentalist. Ghost Moose in NH caused by climate change and ticks.

Notes from an Environmentalist; My Great Great Grandmother's Voyage to America. Last Installment!

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Notes From an Environmentalist. In November all eyes will be on The Balsams in Dixville Notch New Hampshire, where the first ballots are traditionally tabulated.

Notes from an Environmentalist. Heat Wave! Best Explanation.

Notes from an Environmentalist. Bird Flu potential pandemic

Notes from an Environmentalist; Capodimonte to Palermo, Eva's Story.

Notes from an Environmentalist. Former CDC director predicts Avian Flu pandemic.

Notes From an Environmentalist. Stocking trout in the Connecticut Lakes of New Hampshire, the headwaters of the Connecticut River.

Notes From an Environmentalist. Bussman's Holiday on headwaters of Connecticut River in Connecticut lakes, NH.

Notes From an Environmentalist; Cape Cod to Napoli.

Notes from an Environmentalist. Avoided the D-Day crowds in downtown Ipswich, and was rewarded by this bald eagle flyby chased by two red-tailed hawks.

Notes from an Environmentalist. Renewable wooden wind turbines.

Notes From an Environmentalist; Bill McKibbon in high Dudgeon with good cause.

Notes from an Environmentalist. Plum Island Beach Walks.

Notes from an Environmentalist; Standoff between Army Corps and Shorefront Homeowners in Florida Similar to Salisbury Beach.

Notes from an Environmentalist. Mating Whelks on Cape Cod.

Notes from an Environmentalist. Delightful Essay on Nabakov and the resurgence of his favorite butterfly!

Notes from an Environmentalist. Clouds of pollen and an air inversion lent and ethereal feel to Ipswich yesterday morning.

Notes From an Environmentalist. Watch out China, Here Comes Massachusetts!

Notes from an Environmentalist; Chatbot, Are You F'ing Kidding Me?

Notes from an Environmentalist. Don't mean to be a curmudgeon but I think environmentalists used Delaware data to say the peak of horseshoe crab mating is may and June in Massachusetts.

Notes from an Environmentalist; Vote Early and Often!

Notes From an Environmentalist; Horrendous hurricane season coming up!

Notes from an Environmentalist. Beach walk on for today from Plum Island Lighthouse parking lot. Interesting that the Seabrook nuclear plant shut down during the recent solar flare storm.

Notes from an Environmentalist. Weather looks good for Plum Island Beach Walk.

Notes From an Environmentalist; The week the Ipswich dam debate went off track.

Notes from an Environmentalist. Baseline Creep skating by.

Notes from an Environmentalist. Massachusetts will pay to renourish Salisbury Beach.

Notes From an Environmentalist. From Boston to Washington it's all baseline creep.

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Notes From an Environmentalist. Climate Optimists and Pessimists.

Notes From an Environmentalist. Climate optimists vs climate pessimists.

Notes From an Environmentalist; Canadian fires have reignited lowering air quality in the northern U.S. states.

Notes from an environmentalist. Sunday no clouds but no northern lights so bummer again!

Notes From an Environmentalist. In NYC the only place on the continent where I couldn't see the Northern Lights. Clouds and light pollution! Bummer!!

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Notes from an Environmentalist; Rare black deer seen on Massachusetts North Shore.

Notes From an Environmentalist. Measuring the height of Crane's Beach.

Notes From an Environmentalist; A National Policy to buy Coastal Homes faced by Sea Level Rise.

Notes from an Environmentalist."The Answer my friend is blowin in the wind."

Notes from an Environmentalist. "The Answer my Friend is blowin in the wind."

Notes From an Environmentalist. We're Running out of Sand!

Notes from an Environmentalist; Indian ceremony on Crane's Beach. This was just the proposal! (It worked!!)

Notes From an Environmentalist; Cape Cod has its own dredge for Erosion Control. North Shore has to rely on the Army Corps.

Notes from an Environmentalist; $2 million plan to stop erosion of Salisbury Beach, not sure this will work.

Notes From an Environmenalist; Clam spawned right after Columbus "discoverd" America.

Notes From an Environmentalist; Billion Dollar Disasters in US, 2023 was the worst!

Notes from an environmentalist. Trump would cancel NOAA weather and climate forecasting.

Notes from an Environmentalist; The Coastlines Project.

Notes from an Environmentalist. An April swim on Crane's Beach.

Notes from an Environmentalist; Sea level Rise in Ipswich Massachusetts.

Notes from an Environmentalist; "Invasives" in a warming world.

Notes from an Environmentalist. Nantucket House Swept away. We've seen all this before!!

Notes from an Environmentalist. Scientists say UNFAO underestimated the benefits of reducing beef production.

Notes From an Environmentalist; Tesla Tanks but Green Energy Transition Continues.

Notes from an Environmenalist. Dubai gets 1.5 years of rain in 24 hours!! Global Warming!!

Notes from an Environmentalist. GPS Spoofing in the Middle East.

Notes From an Environmentalist. Due to storms and Seabrook nuclear power plant Rt 1A will $20 million for coastal erosion protection.

Notes From an Environmentalist; A National Strategy for Beach Preservation.

Notes from an Environmentalist; Plum Island Beach Walk.

Notes from an Environmentalist. Sailing cargo vessels.

Notes From an Environmentalist. "Only Two Years to Save the Earth."

Notes from an Environmentalist; Plum Island Mystery Solved.

Notes From an Environmentalist. Horseshoe Crabs.

Notes from an Environmentalist. Eclipseswich.

Notes From an Environmentalist. One last Eclipse Podcast!

Notes From an Environmentalist. Plum Island Mystery.

Notes from an Environmentalist; Eclipse

Notes from an Environmentalist; Notes from an Eclipse Snob.

Notes from an Environmentalist. Eclipse post tomorrow!

Notes From an Environmentalist; Global Boiling (with snow!)

Notes from an Environmentalist; Fantastic shots of newly discovered creatures endangered by deep sea mineral mining.

Notes from an Environmentalist. Can we Engineer our way out of the climate crisis? Stratus system being built in Texas will use removed CO2 to extract more oil! What's wrong with this picture??

Notes from an Environmentalist. Possible Causes for the unexplained mechanical disaster that led to the Francis Scott Key bridge collapse.

Notes from an Environmentalist. Happy Easter, my favorite place to celebrate it is at the Bermuda Biological Station!

Notes from an Environmentalist. More on the Baltimore Crash. DARPA has developed a machine that can jam an engine.

Notes from an Environmentalist. More on the Baltimore GPS spoofing HYPOTHESIS this time by Iran in the Straits of Hormuz.

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Notes From an Environmentalist. Ipswich Climate Panel.

Notes From an Environmentalist. Was the Baltimore ship hacked?

Notes From an Environmentalist. Could the Baltimore bridge accident been caused by GPS Spoofing?

Notes from an Environmentalist. Ship loses power swerves and destroys Baltimore's "Key Bridge. Life Imitates Art??

Notes from an Environmentalist. Did we Drop the Ball on the Lab Leak Hypothesis?

Notes from an Environmentalist; This could be a good thing! De-influences fight overconsumption.

Notes from an Environmentalist. High tides and rain from our March 23rd storm flooded the state shellfish depuration plant, but further buried the old coast guard broadcast facility.

Notes from an Environmentalist; Lunar Eclipse on Monday.

Notes from an Environmentalist. Plum Island Barrier Beach in Transition.

Notes from an Environmentalist; Ocean Temperatures off the Charts!

Notes from an Environmentalist. Extremely nice blog from Brandeis University Press. Thanks Sue Ramin!

Notes from an Environmentalist. Plum Island Natural History Tour.

Notes From an Environmentalist. The Shipwreck Ada Damon.

Notes from an Environmentalist. It Could be Worse!

Notes from an Environmentalist. The majority of cars must be EV's by 2032!

Notes From an Environmentalist; "Not the End of the Earth?"

Notes From an Environmentalist. Massachusetts adopts new regulation on captruing horseshoe crabs for bait and blood.

Notes from an Environmentalist; Massachusetts, Storms break apart Merrimack River Jetty. Army Corps couldn't have done it any better!

Notes from an Environmentalist; CNN "$500,000 worth of sand washes away in 72 hours!" The Salisbury Conundrum.

Notes from an Environmentalist;Giant Crane Beach Crepuscular Sandworm, known for bursting up through the beach and hauling Crane Beach Rock Whales underground and devouring them.

Notes From an Environmentalist; Finally!! Deep Sea Mining, President Reagan vetoed ratifying the Law of the Sea Convention on his first day in office.

Notes From an Environmentalist; Twenty Days in Mariupol.

Notes From an Environmentalist; Grand-mothering and Menopause in killer whales.

Beach Walks Bill Sargent will be leading a beach tour of North Plum Island on Sunday at 10am. Meet at the North Beach parking lot.

Notes From an Environmentalist. Coastal Roads; Our system is Broken, our heads in the Sand.

Notes From an Environmentalist; Burmese python invade Everglades.

Notes From an Environmentalist; Tides will be 3 feet higher in NE by the mid-2030's. Expect Severe Erosion.

Notes From an Environmentalist; Europe is Fastest Warming Continent.

Notes From an Environmentalist. Sorry for so many posts but a lot has been going on with these new moon high tides. Will still be high during April's new full moon eclipse.

Notes From an Environmentalist; Salisbury, $500,000 sand dune washed away in 72 hours.

Notes From an Environmentalist. Bermuda, John Rolfe Steals Stolen Tobacco.

Notes from an Environmentalist; Beware the Tides of March! Today's 9.9 foot new moon high tide. In 7 years they will be 2 feet higher, because the sun, moon and earth will be closer and in a line. "

Notes From an Environmentalist. An Anthropocene event in Costa Rica.

Notes From an Environmentalist. A few more shipwrecks and a Rock Whale on Crane's Beach in 2020. Glad that one is over!

Notes From an Environmentalist. Crane's Beach shipwreck the Ada Damon.

Notes From an Environmentalist. Bermuda; Elixir for Winter Doldrums.

Notes From an Environmentalist; Dog Day Afternoon on Crane's Beach!

Notes From an Environmentalist. The Life of Sol.

Notes From an Environmentalist; photos of the Texas panhandle fire.

Notes From an Environmentalist; The Comet Strike Theory that Just Wont die. Elegant theory upended by an ugly fact.

Cool video about rearing and releasing larval horseshoe crabs. But it seems sort of like backing an ice cream truck down to a crowded beach and yelling free ice cream!

Notes From an Environmentalist: Climate Change could disrupt the Spring Overturn of the oceanic food chain.

Notes From an Environmentalist. Beware the Tides of March!

Notes From an Environmentalist. Good Morning Sunshine.

Notes From an Environmentalist. The Covid Debate Continues. Nicholas Wade testimony. Also had an article in yesterday's WSJ.

Notes From an Environmentalist. The Day I Saved the Gulf Stream.

Notes From an Environmentalist. For those who might want to send comments or appear at tonight's meeting in Gloucester.

Notes from an Environmentalist. Photo: Horseshoe crabs mating on Pleasant Bay July 9. Excerpt from testimony I will be giving to the MA DMF this week. Note I couldn't record the last post.

Notes from an Environmentalist. Ocean cliff collapses in California.

Notes From an Environmentalist. Economic benefits of our energy transition in Salem.

Notes From an Environmentalist; Nantucket may lose its waste water treatment plant due to erosion from the last few storms.

Notes From an Environmentalist. By the 2030's the high tides will be two feet higher than we had during our last new and full moon tides. This will have severe consequences for coastal erosion.

Notes from an Environmentalist. Last night's full moon was about a fourth smaller than usual. We had insignificant tides and little erosion compared to the new moon high tides 2 weeks before.

Notes From an Environmentalist. Busman's Holiday at Bent Apple Farm, my son's airb&b in South Londonderry VT.

Notes From an Environmentalist; Of Solar Panels and Holsteins, or why Dustin Hoffman Didn't go into plastics."

Notes from an Environmentalist; Insurance Rates and natural disasters.

Notes From an Environmentalist; Should we stop eating lobster to protect Right Whales?

Notes From an Environmentalist; The biggest environmental problem facing us, how many tipping points have we passed or are about to pass?

Notes from an Environmentalist; The most dangerous tipping point.

Notes from an Environmentalist; "It was the spring of hope it was the winter of despair." Dickens. An apt quote for our era of climate change and energy transition.

Notes From an Environmentalist; A Tale of Two Species.

Notes from an Environmentalist; Clarke Beach Erosion and possible fix. Ipswich, MA.

Notes From an Environmentalist; Bill Ryan's Forecast for Tuesday's storm.

Notes From an Environmentalist; Plum Island Flooding.

Notes From an Environmentalist. Salisbury erosion continues to unearth 100 plus year old Prints of horseshoes and people working on cranberry bed that had been in the dunes. photos April 24, 2018.

Notes From an Environmentalist; Fossil Fuel Interests behind efforts to thwart wind turbines because of whales. Makes sense!

Notes From an Environmentalist; Our Coastal System is Broken.

Notes from an Environmentalist; Our coastal system is broken.

Notes From an Environmentalist. About a mile of Salisbury Beach got whacked by the last three storms. Scores of homes are at risk.

Notes from an Environmentalist. Apparently Plum Island access walkway will go through dune grass that was planted in the Fall. But storms built up a 10 foot high nascent dune.

Notes from an Environmentalist ., Can sand motor save our coasts?

Notes From an Environmentalist, Plum Island took a hit during te past three storms but nothing like the devastation on Salisbury Beach.

Notes from an Environmentalist; Hear, Hear. Grannies Take on the Environment.

Notes From an Environmentalist; Climate Change wars.

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Notes From an Environmentalist. East Coast communities devastated by erosion are all vying for valuable yet limited resource, sand.

Notes from an Environmentalist; Christmas trees to slow erosion? In the old days you could have put Christmas trees between the posts. Worked pretty well!

Notes From an Environmentalist; Sylvia Earle, knew her as a kid in college, still one of my heroes.

Notes From an Environmentalist; A Small Wager on Removing the Ipswich Dam.

Notes From an Environmntalist. A huge win for the Environment, LNG terminal paused. Bill McKibbon writes:

Notes From an Environmentalist; Not a very good shot but it shows the drops between the deer tracks so I'm thinking it was dripping off the deer's stomach hairs. End of quizz!

Notes From an Environmentalist; Plum Island Erosion Increasing.

Notes from an Environmentalist. Anyone know what is going on here?

Notes from an Environmentalist; What Greenland's melting glaciers mean for sea level rise. Recent tides have been moderate it has been the combination of waves, storm surge and high tides.

Notes From an Environmentalist; Supreme Court to take up case that could gut environmental regulations. One issue is the fisheries observer program depicted in the film Coda filmed in Glostah!

Plum Island's Engineer's Beach lost 300 feet during the Recent storms. No evidence of more work on the Coir bag seawall.

Notes from an Environmentalist; 90 cold related deaths, Be Careful out there!

Notes From an Environmentalist. These January storms have caused extensive damage up and down the East Coast. Here are some images of Cape Cod.

Notes from an Environmenalist; Archeologists have discovered Pliny the Elder the father of natural history and the head of the Roman navy's beach house!

Notes from an Environmentalist; Salem damaged by this winter's storms.

Notes From an Environmentalist, Potential Unintended Consequences of Removing a Dam.

Notes From an Environmentalist; Olympic National Park discovers removing the Elwha Dam caused them to lose their bridge and road.

Notes From an Environmentalist; The Fault is not in our Dam, but in Our Damn Uncertainty.

Notes from an Environmentalist; habor seal below the Sylvania dam and inundated duck camps in Plum Island Sound.

Notes From an Environmentalist; January 13th Floods, inundate Jefferey's Neck causeway in Ipswich. Coastal Erosion up and down the East Coast. Shared photo.

Watr Boiling over the Sylvania Dam, waters only two feet lower than the Mother's Day Floods. Close to the footbridge which almost had to be dynamited during the Mothers Day Floods.

Notes From an Environmentalist; Yesterday's high tide on the Causeway will be at noon today.

Notes from an Environmentalist; Last three storms have washed 400 feet over Plum Island's Engineers Beach threatening homes.

Notes From an Environmentalist: Trump's New Covid, Climate Change.

Notes from an Environmentalist; major flooding throughout coastal NE.

Notes From an Environmentalist; Trump and the Environment.

Notes from an Environmentalist, Expect Plum Island erosion on next two storms' new moon high course tides, 9.8 feet on Saturday.

Notes From an Environmentalist; Despite Political Opposition Market Forces keep economy transiting to solar and wind energy.

Notes From an Environmentalist; 2023 officially declared hottest year on record, 2024 will be worse. No surprises here. "Enjoy the cool climate while you can!"

Notes From an Environmentalist. Explosive rolling surf off Plum Island today!

Notes From an Environmentalist; Plum Island Beach Walk Still on for today at 10. More thoughts on Massachusetts Energy Transitions.

Notes From an Environmentalist; Plum Island Beach Walk still on and some reading to ride out the storm.

Notes of an Environmentalist; Important new study about East Coast Subsidence.

Notes from an Environmentalist; Post storm Beach walk!

Notes From an Environmentalist; What has Nature wrought on Engineers Beach? Beach walk to see results of this weekend's storm!

Notes From an Environmentalist: Invasive green crabs, out compete expanding native blue crabs. Thanks Tim Simmons!

Notes From an Environmentalist. Vineyard Wind produces first energy!

Notes from an Environmentalist; Climate change allows blue crabs to get around Cape Cod and establish a population on the North Shore!

Notes From an Environmentalist; New Year's hug as Plum Island's Army Corps Beach awaits this weekend's storm. Losing 100 feet per storm.