Jensen Access, looking east. See OceanDiver's post below about a Sunday trip in the Pacific Northwest.
This is the 590th edition of the Spotlight on Green News & Views (previously known as the Green Diary Rescue). Here is the February 23 edition. Inclusion of a story in the Spotlight does not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of it.
OUTSTANDING GREEN STORIES
Every storm more houses wash out to sea.
rktect writes—Global Climate Change Denial is Costing Coastal Cities Quadrillions in Shorefront Property Values: “It's ironic that shorefront property to include, golf courses, airports, railheads and subways, seaports, military bases, government buildings, homes, hotels, and most urban infrastructure once considered the very epitome of a status symbol is rapidly becoming worthless because FEMA flood maps are no longer insurable, mortgagable or salable. Despite this, some major financial groups mislead as to the time frame for the flooding continue to build infrastructure in coastal cities. We don’t have a hundred years, or fifty or even a decade left before that proves to have been overly optimistic. Most people can observe the flooding is increasing at an increasing rate. Images of people in Miami, Bangladesh, Amsterdam, Venice, and Oceania, are being supplemented with images from Maine to the BOS-WASH corridor, Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia. Relocating our cities provides a better chance for saving them than trying to build higher seawalls and levees, flood gates and drainage into the suburbs. To relocate our cities we might begin putting our new infrastructure on ring roads located more than sixty meters above existing sea levels. People whose property is less than sixty meters above the FEMA flood maps flood zones may need to get creative to write off their bad investments and put them on taxpayers. We should resist that displacement of responsibility.”
Turkey vulture
Kestrel writes—Dawn Chorus: A Face Only a Mother Could Love (with poll!): “Throughout the long and storied history of Dawn Chorus, there have been many great diaries about birds and bird-watching, along with many terrific photos of birds and their habitats. The subjects of these diaries have varied, with some focused on a particular bird or trait, on bird behavior and migration patterns, on breeding behavior and nesting, even colors of birds or how they see, eat, fly and hunt. But in all the Dawn Chorus diaries over the past fifteen years or so (and I’ve written more than 75 myself) there is one subject I realized that I’ve never seen covered in all that time. That subject? Weird and ugly birds. That’s right, weird and/or ugly birds. You know as well as I do that some birds are just crazy weird-looking and some are just plain ugly. Behold the common Turkey Vultureabove. That bald red head with tiny tufts of fuzz and that odd-looking hooked beak does not an attractive fellow make (to humans anyway).”
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