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Tag Archives: global warming

Svalbard: Fastest Warming Place on Earth

Posted on March 11, 2020 by Bill Murray

Here’s a nicely done twenty-two minute documentary called Svalbard: Fastest Warming Place on Earth, from ARTE Reportage.

Posted in Arctic, Climate Change, Norway, Svalbard / Tagged arctic, Climate Change, global warming, Norway, svalbard / 2 Comments

Sydney Webcam

Posted on December 21, 2019 by Bill Murray

Sydney looks okay at midday Sunday local time. Click the screen shot for a webcam.

Posted in Australia, Climate Change, Weather/Climate / Tagged australia, Climate Change, global warming, Sydney, webcams / Leave a comment

Australia Bakes

Posted on December 17, 2019 by Bill Murray

Screen grab from a story headlined Like a Furnace from Independent.co.uk.

“Highs of over 50C are expected, with meteorologists warning the heat could break the country’s existing record of 50.7C measured at Oodnadatta, South Australia, in 1960.”

50C is 122F. Below, stock photos from Broome, Sydney and Darwin.

Posted in Australia, Climate Change / Tagged australia, Climate Change, global warming, weather / Leave a comment

Drought

Posted on December 7, 2019 by Bill Murray

Haven’t been down to Victoria Falls in twenty-some years, when it looked like this:

So it was a shock to see this this morning. Victoria Falls today, from The Guardian:

There are more, pretty devastating photos here, from Metro UK.

Posted in Africa, Climate Change, Zambia, Zimbabwe / Tagged africa, Climate Change, global warming, Victoria Falls, zambia, Zimbabwe / Leave a comment

Quotes:

Posted on January 5, 2018 by Bill Murray

“If you can’t breathe, nothing else matters.”

Motto of American Lung Association, quoted in the article Oceans suffocating as huge dead zones quadruple since 1950, scientists warn.

Posted in Oceans, Quotes:, Science / Tagged ecology, global warming, green, Oceans, Science / 1 Comment

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Welcome. I'm Bill Murray, travel writer, picture-taker and lifetime traveler.

I’m author of four books. Brand new in April 2021 is Out There: Thirty Essays on Travel, a collection of travel columns. Also, get yourself a copy of these three: Out in the Cold, Travel Adventures in Svalbard, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland and Canada, Common Sense and Whiskey and Visiting Chernobyl. 

I contribute a monthly column about off-the-beaten-track travel to the Monday Magazine at 3QuarksDaily.com, and I curate EarthPhotos.com, a collection of 20,000+ photos from the 120 countries and territories to which my wife and I have traveled.

Our ongoing mission is to get to places we haven't been, write books and articles, post commentary here and photos on EarthPhotos.com.

We live in Georgia, USA, and spend as much of each summer as we can at our mökki on Lake Saimaa in Finland. Except in pandemic years.

LinkedIn Bio here. 

Here's where we've been and when. 


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