Jonathan Foley

@globalecoguy
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Executive Director, Project Drawdown. Climate and environmental scientist. Focused on solutions. My views. #climate #solutions #environment
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I wish our calendars were aligned so that today, or maybe the winter solstice?, was used to define the beginning of the year. January 1st in our current calendar is totally arbitrary and has no astronomical or planetary significance; we just made it up.

Happy Perihelion Day!

Believe it or not, today is the day of the year that Earth is closest to the sun. (In the northern hemisphere still have winter because our north rotational axis is pointed away from the sun.)

Today, we are 147,098,074 km from the sun; in 6 months we will be at aphelion (furthest away) at 152,097,701 km. Maybe not a huge difference, but it's still about 5 million kilometers.

I wish our calendars were aligned so that today, or maybe the winter solstice?, was used to define the beginning of the year. January 1st in our current calendar is totally arbitrary and has no astronomical or planetary significance; we just made it up.

Happy Perihelion Day!

Believe it or not, today is the day of the year that Earth is closest to the sun. (In the northern hemisphere still have winter because our north rotational axis is pointed away from the sun.)

Today, we are 147,098,074 km from the sun; in 6 months we will be at aphelion (furthest away) at 152,097,701 km. Maybe not a huge difference, but it's still about 5 million kilometers.

Okay, I did not have “A pathetic, misogynistic ex-kickboxer would try to insult #gretatunberg Greta Thunberg, but instead becomes forever associated with having ‘small dick energy’, is located by a pizza order, and is arrested by Romanian police on charges of human trafficking” on my 2023 Bingo card.

Did you?

2022, I mean. Whoops.

Okay, I did not have “A pathetic, misogynistic ex-kickboxer would try to insult #gretatunberg Greta Thunberg, but instead becomes forever associated with having ‘small dick energy’, is located by a pizza order, and is arrested by Romanian police on charges of human trafficking” on my 2023 Bingo card.

Did you?

Greta for the win! #climate
Greta for the win! #climate
Startup Claims It's Sending Sulfur Into the Atmosphere to Fight Climate Change

Make Sunsets sells "cooling credits" for $10 and alleges that 1 gram of sulfur particles offsets the impacts of 1 ton of carbon emissions.

Gizmodo