How many runways do you see for Kelleys airport in Grayling area (USA) ? : The answer is on https://www.bigorre.org/aero/meteo/0mi3/en #grayling #usa #kelleysairport #0mi3 #airport #aviation #avgeek vl

The #winter getaway last week went well. Spent the first three nights at the Ramada Inn in #Grayling. Spotted a car so that we could finally ski the entire #MasonTract Pathway. More skiing at #HartwickPines. Then up to #WildernessStatePark, stayed at Big Stone Bay cabin for three nights. Drove up to #Rudyard area in U.P. to find #SnowyOwls, and skied Nebo Trail to Red Pine & Wiikenhs Trails. Played games in cabin each night.

Are drying #rivers a warning of #Europe's tomorrow?

by Paul Hokenos
13 September 2022

"Across southern #Romania, much of which relies on the #Danube for fresh #DrinkingWater, hundreds of villages are rationing water supplies and curtailing the irrigation of #farmland that Europe relies upon for #corn, #grain, #sunflowers, and #vegetables. The cruise ships that normally ferry tourists along the iconic waterway are docked. In the first six months of 2022, Romania's #hydropower utility #Hidroelectrica generated a third less electricity than it normally does. And Romanian #wheat farmers say that drought has cost them a fifth of their harvest. Romania is one of Europe's largest wheat producers, and all the more important for the international market in light of Russia's blockage of much of Ukraine's wheat exports.

"'At towns up and down the Danube, #drought and #ClimateChange take on an existential meaning,' explains Nick Thorpe, author of The Danube: A Journey Upriver from the #BlackSea to the #BlackForest. 'In contrast to city dwellers, they're having this disaster unfold before their eyes.'"

[...]

"Scientists say that the economic cost of the rivers' decimation is only part of the problem. The less water in the water system as a whole, explains Gabriel Singer, an ecologist at University of Innsbruck, Austria, the less dilution for #salts and the slower a river flows. This leads to higher #saline content and #HigherWaterTemperatures, which can be lethal for many species of #Riverine life, such as Danube #salmon, b#arbel, and European #grayling, among many others.

"Higher temperatures also feed #AlgaeBlooms, Singer explains, which can be #toxic for river systems. This is what has happened in several German rivers, including the Moselle and Neckar, as well as perhaps the Oder River, where in mid-August more than 100 metric tons (220,000lbs) of dead fish – among them #perch, #catfish, #pike, and #asp – washed up on its shores within a week. (Experts are currently investigating the cause of the die-off.)"

Read more:
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220912-are-drying-rivers-a-warning-of-europes-tomorrow

#WaterIsLife #Europe #DanubeRiver #Extinction #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe #HungerGames

As climate heating dries up spawning streams at this Mongolian lake, fishing, once sustainable, has become overfishing. Species at risk are seldom driven to that state by a single cause. It is rather the combined effects of a collection of impacts forcing them into that state.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/16/mongolia-pristine-lake-hovsgol-has-endured-for-2-million-years-why-are-its-fish-in-crisis-aoe
#ExtinctionCrisis #ClimateChange #Grayling #Mongolia #Conservation #Overfishing

New Threat Actor “Grayling” Blamed For Espionage Campaign - https://www.redpacketsecurity.com/new-threat-actor-grayling-blamed-for-espionage-campaign/

#threatintel #Cyber-espionage #APT_group #Grayling

I had some chores to do today but as I was passing Aylesbeare Common I thought I'd have a quick walk.

As I was snapping a Grayling butterfly I saw a movement behind it - a Common Lizard! Plenty of #Grayling about as well as Gatekeeper.

#AylesbeareCommon #PebblebedHeath #Devon #Butterfly #wildlife #nature #CommonLizard #Lizard

📷 Common Lizard
📷 Grayling
📷 Gatekeeper

@AnarchistArt
I prefer the more widely applicable "laws" of philosopher AC #Grayling:
"Anything that CAN be done WILL be done if it brings advantage or profit to those who can do it " and the corollary:
"What CAN be done will NOT be done if it brings costs, economic or otherwise, to those who can stop it"

Hey, #atheist​s and other #secular types! Take the next step and question the provincial religious #morality you’re still rationalizing!

https://newideal.aynrand.org/religious-skeptics-should-question-their-moral-theology/

#philosophy #ethics #morals #values #reason #atheism #Aristotle #AynRand #PhilippaFoot #MichaelThompson #StevenPinker #Pinker #SamHarris #Harris #MichaelShermer #Shermer #Kant #Sidgwick #Rawls #Parfit #DavidHume #Hume #ACGrayling #Grayling #TrolleyProblem

This month's patreon supporters' tying class was on patterns for the caddis life-cycle. Simplified tape wing adult, a simple pupa, caseless and cased larva on jig hooks.
#flyfishing #flytying #fishing #trout #troutfly #grayling #graylingfly #dryfly #nymph #caddis #patreon

MEDIA RELEASE: Conservationists sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today seeking protections for Montana’s Arctic grayling population under the Endangered Species Act. The parties — the Center for Biological Diversity, Western Watersheds Project and Butte resident Pat Munday — are represented by Earthjustice. #EndangeredSpecies #Fish #Grayling #Conservation #Biodiversity

https://westernwatersheds.org/2023/01/lawsuit-seeks-lifesaving-protections-for-montanas-arctic-grayling/

In the time since I was last up north a record store opened in Graying : Rotten Princess. What a fun find. Tons of great digging and the owner is a blast. Had a great time and picked up some fun stuff.
#vinyl #recordshopping #michigan #upnorth #grayling #rottenprincess