[6:54 p.m. Updated There's a highly relevant new Nature Climate Change study by Aiguo Dai, a climate researcher who just moved from the National Center for Atmospheric Research to the State University of New York at Albany. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
In a recent issue of The New Yorker, the melancholy Jonathan Franzen argued that, since earth now «resembles a patient whose terminal cancer we can choose to treat either with disfiguring aggression or with palliation and sympathy,» we should stop trying to avoid the inevitable and spend our money on new nature preserves, where birds can go extinct a little more slowly. (esquire.com)
The cliffs are falling silent at the RSPB's new nature reserve at Troup Head following the hustle and bustle of the last few months when tens of thousands of seabirds occupied the cliffs for the summer. (thetravelmagazine.net)