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A perspective from Oregon’s mid-Willamette Valley

How high’s the water now?

Written May 27th, 2014 by Hasso Hering

You were wondering how much the Pacific Ocean has risen since the last time I checked, right? I mean, there’s something in the news almost every day on climate change. And according to everything we hear, the effects of global warming including rising sea levels are affecting us all and happening now.


Our climate: Still great, right?

Written May 7th, 2014 by Hasso Hering

Living in the Willamette Valley, we don’t seem to be greatly affected by climate change, which according to President Obama and the big media is just about the greatest danger Americans face. And they say climate change is harming us now. Really?


Breezy day: Nice climate change

Written April 10th, 2014 by Hasso Hering

Thursday was a cloudless but very windy day on the central Oregon coast, as the noise on this video proves. Hardly anybody was on the beaches, which is not surprising for a weekday in early April. Every time I walk across the sand left dry by the low tide, I’m reminded of the increasing agitation […]


Rain, climate change and the facts

Written March 29th, 2014 by Hasso Hering

  All this rain we’ve been having naturally leads to more discussion of — what else? — climate change. On that subject, like on many others, you don’t have to believe everything you hear. And especially on climate change, there’s a handy tool you can use to check the facts yourself.


Welcome this ‘climate change’

Written March 23rd, 2014 by Hasso Hering

Climate change seems to be on everybody’s mind — if you consider politicians and writers of letters to the editor to be “everybody.” Luckily, there are the rest of us, rejoicing this time of year in the arrival of spring.

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Sea level stays level… I think

Written February 22nd, 2014 by Hasso Hering

Well, another stroll on the beach, and still no sign of that rising sea level we hear so much about. Yes, I know the climate change folks talk in terms of a meter or more by the end of the century, so it’s not exactly imminent. And presumably we would not even notice any annual rise by just […]


Climate plan: What else is new?

Written February 19th, 2014 by Hasso Hering

Portland and Multnomah County have drafted a 30-page plan to deal with “climate change.” You’ll be happy to know that it doesn’t propose anything that isn’t already being done or that prudent communities in Oregon would not do based on the climate we have.


 
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