The New Utah Podcast, Episode 358 - Utah Film Center. This week we sit down with the Executive Director of the Utah Film Center, Mariah Mellus. We talk all things hollywood in Utah. From the 100 years of film making in the state, to all the current things being done. We also talk a lot about what the Utah Film Center brings to the table for the state, especially young aspiring film makers. Follow us @tnupodcast or visit us at TheNewUtah.com

358 - Utah Film Center

The New Utah Podcast, Episode 360 - Setting Boundaries. This week we talk to a local dog trainer, Sean Knudsen about his love for training. A life long Utahn, who is also the owner of his own business, Alpha Pros K9 Training, he has a ton to share about dog training and behavior. We also discuss flooding potential, Jeremy's chickens and some upcoming events. Thanks to Folk Hogan for our intro and outro music. Follow us @tnupodcast or visit us at TheNewUtah.com

360 - Setting Boundaries

- Adam Frisch stumps in Telluride
- El Niño brings a drier summer, for now
- County tracks its climate data

Newscast 8-3-23

The New Utah Podcast, Episode 397 - Monday Morning Interiors. This week we sit down with Rachel Krull, the owner of Monday Morning Interiors. A Utah native, that spent many years in New York, and went to school for biology, is now designing dream rooms for people. We get to talk about her life, process, and how interior design is different from decorating and architecture. Thanks to Folk Hogan for our intro and outro music. Join our patreon! patreon.com/TNUP Follow us @tnupodcast or visit us at TheNewUtah.com

397 - Monday Morning Interiors

How Boxed Wine Is Better Than Bottled. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Headlines:
Flows in Colorado rivers will shrink by up to 30 percent because of climate change.

Shippers avoiding attacks by Houthi rebels in the Red Sea are diverting around Africa, adding time and carbon emissions.

A single bottle of water contains, on average, some 240,000 plastic fragments small enough to pass into blood, cells, and the brain.

How to box in the wine industry's carbon emissions.

This Week in Water for January 14, 2024

On this episode of Water Buffs, we examine how drought can harm human health, specifically how dramatic flucutations in water availability can lead to increasingly toxic water supplies. Dr. James is an award-winning epidemiologist and engineer specializing in environmental and climate risk factors and their connection to health in vulnerable populations. She is an associate professor at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, one of three institutions that make up the Colorado School of Public Health. Dr. James recently spoke to journalist Melissa Bailey for a Water Desk-supported article, “Once 'paradise,' parched Colorado valley grapples with arsenic in water.” The article, originally published by KFF Health News, centered around Dr. James' community-based research projects that investigate exposure to heavy metals, in particular a rise in carcinogenic arsenic in drinking water in Colorado's drought-stricken San Luis Valley.

Water Buffs Podcast - Ep. #12 - Water Flux and Toxic Wells - Kathy James

Thinking snow and climate breakdown. Just some thoughts notated during a Janusru winter WALLOWAS rain-on-top-of-snow event. The fourth this year at 1330 meters…

FIELDNOTES:—I report on snowpack, jetstream & rain-on-top-of-snow I.21.2024

- Spring brings a rapid snowmelt
- G is for Government previews Telluride Town Council
- Exhibit explores placemaking in the San Juans

Newscast 6-3-24

In this week’s episode, host Daniel Raimi talks with Jonathan Jennings, a meteorologist at the Utah Division of Water Resources and president of the Weather Modification Association. Jennings’s work focuses on cloud seeding, a technology that can reduce hail and increase rainfall or snowfall by introducing chemicals into clouds, yielding more water for agriculture, aquifers, and bodies of water. Jennings outlines the chemistry and physics behind cloud seeding, how much additional precipitation the technology can elicit from clouds, and the scale at which cloud seeding is used. He also speaks to public concerns about modifying weather and shares insights on how experts can better communicate the goals, methods, and impacts of this technology to the public.

References and recommendations:

“Economic Impacts of Cloud Seeding on Agricultural Crops in North Dakota” by Dean Bangsund and Nancy Hodur; https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/291806

“A Benefit-Cost Analysis of Texas Weather Modification Activities Resulting in an Additional One Inch of Rainfall Across a Region” by Jason L. Johnson; https://perma.cc/ERJ6-HGLZ

“Bitter Waters: The Struggles of the Pecos River” by Patrick Dearen; https://www.oupress.com/9780806152011/bitter-waters/

Economic Effects and Public Concerns from Cloud Seeding, with Jonathan Jennings

IMAGE: Winter ski mountaineering in the WALLOWAS, Northeast OREGON

Text pdf http://www.picture-poems.com/pdfs/the-amplified-cryosphere.pdf 
A key aspect of the CLIMATE BREAKDOWN Reports is both learning and 

developing ‘on the fly’, so to speak, a new DESCRIPTIVE LANGUAGE of climate change. This is a language that is at once general and qualitative and relative when we ZOOM OUT for a landscape point of view; AND, it is a language that is specific and quantitative and absolute when we wish to ZOOM IN for macro measurement detail. Both aspects are seen as scientifically vital and complementary.

Another aspect of CLIMATE BREAKDOWN Reports is that the language we develop becomes essential to the wider circle of what we might call a new living Earth awareness. This is awareness as we undertake the joyous, life-long work of becoming native to a place. This is an awareness that always looks two ways, both OUTWARDLY into the relevant features of the natural world like snowpack or temperature or elevation, and INWARDLY, looking at the coherence of questions and theories conditioning the eye that perceives. I see this two-ways style of seeing as part of my daily philosophical / yoga practice. A key part of this practice is learning to learn, is becoming spiritually independent, and is healing the loss of natural sensitivity caused by hydrocarbon man culture that has caused the climate crisis in the first place.

This edition of the report addresses the fascinating theme of reflectivity or ALBEDO, or how WHITE surfaces reflect energy back out to space, and BLACK surfaces absorb the energy. Or why skiers wear black in winter, and hikers wear white in summer.

Specifically we explore the implication of Dr. James Hansen’s recent proposal that Earth, when seen from space, has become a very much darker place.

Here’s a quick summary of his work. Don’t worry if you don’t yet understand all the concepts and details. That will come with time. 


• 0.5% albedo reduction: 

Since the early 2000s, precise satellite data shows Earth's albedo has decreased by about 0.5%. This has "staggering implications" for the climate system.
• 1.7 watts per square meter (WimP): The 0.5% albedo decrease corresponds to a 1.7 Wn increase in the amount of solar energy absorbed by Earth, averaged over its entire surface.
• Equivalent to 138 ppm of CO2: Hansen notes that this 1.7 Wm7 of absorbed energy is so huge that if it were a direct climate forcing, it would be equivalent to increasing atmospheric CO2 by 138 pm. However, he clarifies that most of this change is a climate feedback rather than a forcing.
• Over 100 ppm CO2 equivalent: In a January 2024 paper, Hansen and his colleagues wrote that the albedo decrease since 2015 is equivalent to a sudden CO2 increase of "more than 100 ppm". 

Now, let’s leap into our DEEP DIVE and see what these numbers mean locally, in both the CENTRAL ALPS of SWITZERLAND, and the WALLOWAS of Northeast OREGON:

500X Baseline: How Black Carbon and Wildfires Flip the Switch on Mountain Snow Melt

Composer. Writer. Photographer. Former conductor & founder of the ASKO ensemble.

On a bike/ski/hike trek of the Pacific Northwest studying native plants & climate breakdown 🌲 from sagebrush sea to whitebark pine. Composing off-grid the whole way.

#Sun2Sound 🌕 on Bluesky

THINKING LIKE A STONEPINE, a soundpoem manifesto https://vimeo.com/844665859

“LOVE & WATER, three thought poems w/ coda, PHAROS for small orchestra, “Nightwind”” https://vimeo.com/847079690 

CURRENTLY on mt bike/ski/climbing trek through Pacific Northwest, working on a photobook about WHITEBARK PINE COLLAPSE and CLIMATE CRISIS. BASES in the WALLOWAS | AMSTERDAM | ALPS. 

WEEKLY photo/poetry updates at www.picture-poems.com & THE CIRCLE IN THE SQUARE new music, poetry & dance performance project at www.cs-music.com

ALWAYS ON THE LOOKOUT for progressive, tech-savy, instrumental virtuosi interested in dialogue & collaborative undertakings.

CONTACT cliff@picture-opoems.com
Or on SKYPE or FACETIME @cliffcrego

MUSIC? The one thing humans do,
that makes the rest of nature jealous.

A local Utah podcast focused on news and events in Utah and small businesses in the community. Fun and free with a dive into the non-standard Utah world.

Resources Radio is a weekly podcast by Resources for the Future. Each week we talk to leading experts about climate change, electricity, ecosystems, and more, making the latest research accessible to everyone.

H2O Radio is journalism about water. We follow water wherever it leads us and report on what we find. We interview experts— from engineers and scientists to legislators and politicians in order to get the facts. But we also talk to ordinary folks to ask how water issues affect their lives. Why? Because we're all in this together. This is a conversation about water and our collective water future.

The Water Buffs podcast features in-depth interviews with experts and leaders who can explain the challenges confronting our water resources—and potential solutions. We’ll be interviewing journalists, scientists, policymakers, advocates, water users, and other stakeholders.

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