So why the pink? This WorldView satellite image from 11/05/23 tells the story: our wetland in Central Maui isn't wet. It tends to be driest right before the winter rains, but I haven't seen it this dry where there is hardly any water at all in this area.
8 years ago today (yesterday, actually), 20 September, 2015, when I was a contract engineering mgr for GoDaddy in #Culver_City - a company they had just acquired in the process of an #IPO.
I'm not quite sure how that all works, but everytime I get in the middle of one of those, all the C-Level folks and those who hired me disappear a few days later, buy #yachts and #islands, and I end up being one of the big bosses working for bunch of people I never meet, lolz.
The Orkney islands are to test two electric ferries for commuting between its outlying islands as part of efforts to cut carbon emissions from shipping.
The battery-powered hydrofoil ferries, whose hulls are raised above the water, are part of a three-year, £15.5m demonstration project funded by the UK government, due to start in March 2024.
Climate change is an immediate threat to the majority of the world's population.
We need a local, regional, state, national, and international "moon shot" type of concentration of effort using available resources while developing and advancing new science and technologies to counteract the damage humans have caused.
Without this type of all-out, universal cooperation, human civilization, and perhaps humanity itself, are in imminent danger of extinction.