Science Creating New Low Flyingl Sattelites to Pollute Our Sky With Even More Electronics

 BBC ran a story, Sky skimmers: The race to fly satellites at the lowest orbits yet, about the race to fill the sky with even more satellites. Called Skimmers these satellites will fly closer to Earths atmosphere than any other satellite.

The article points out the abilities and risks these new low flying satellites  saying,

This new generation of orbiters could enable ultra-high-definition surveillance of activities on the ground, or superfast satellite-based communications.

What is not mentioned is that our crowded sky will become even more crowded. Nor does it talk about the dangers posed by the electroplllution created by Skimmers and the damage they will do to an already weakening geomagnetic field.

Our assault on Mother Earth with technology and science gets increasingly more egregious. Sad.

The Extent of Ocean's Warming Has Been Underestimated

 There have been two Climate Change impacts I have been talking about on this blog for years. One is that we have been underestimating Climate Change (https://motherearthprayers.blogspot.com/search/label/Underestimating%20Climate%20Change)

and that there is a multiplier affect, where the components--rising temperature, air pollution....--interact with each other and magnify their affects.

It seems like less than a year ago it was reported we have been underestimating  rising water temperatures. Well this past week it happened again. An Environmental Research Letters Study found

--Ocean warming 4 times faster than in 1980s — and will likely  accelerate in coming decades.

-- The acceleration in ocean warming is due to climate change and the Earth taking in more energy than it's emitting. 

--the warming ocean trend has picked up in the last 15 years because Earth is absorbing more sunlight as well as heat trapped by greenhouse gases.

Climate Migration and Insurance

For  years I have writing about the coming mass exodus of climate migrants from the South and coastal areas to the North. You can read them at  Climate Migration One of the factors besides climate driving this surge will be the inability to buy insurance, or paying exorbitant prices for it. 

As climate change begins damaging more regions around the USA and world, risks to insurers will start to rise from having to pay for catastrophes (LA wildfires, hurricanes in Florida...), to seeing the price of housing stocks fall as people begin moving North to escape climate change and the unaffordabilty of insurance (to even the possibility of not being able to buy homeowner insurance). I have noted on several occasions that insurers have abandoned places like Florida.

I mention this because today I read an explaining how a climate catastrophe in one region could trigger a crisis in the insurance market and a larger crisis in financial markets. Here is a link that connects to the article

I’m an economist. Here’s why I’m worried the California insurance crisis could trigger broader financial instability

More Bad News For Mother Earth

 The new year has started and the bad news about Mother Earth continues to grow;

--The LA Times reported How climate change worsened the most destructive wildfires in L.A. history

--According to NOAA 2024 was the hottest year on record surpassing, the not to be exceeded, 1.5C°   preindustrial  temperature.

--NPR recently reported U.S. electricity demand is set to explode. That will make it harder to cut climate pollution.

--The Financial Stability Board (FSB) issued a report that climate change is set to trigger market panics.