He explains that he does not want to necessarily destroy status quo or go against authority…but if that is what it takes to establish His kingdom, He will do what is needed. How can we do this? Discuss with students how we might communicate or demonstrate that we are a light unto others. Make a salty scene…allow students to choose a paper and decorate it.
Add glue to spots that they wish to be more textured or raised, and sprinkle salt over those areas. When dry, the salt will be raised and bumpy…Add a label or caption with the verse.
Extra designs or decoration can be affixed as timing dictates. Close with prayer and thank God for allowing us to be His salt and light to the world. Ask for further ways of spreading and sharing His love to all. New Sunday School Curriculum: Church budgets are tight, that's why our curriculum is half the price of printed materials. It is not just the hajj, and it is not just Mecca; heat is already killing us. In the sugarcane region of El Salvador, as much as one-fifth of the population has chronic kidney disease, including over a quarter of the men, the presumed result of dehydration from working the fields they were able to comfortably harvest as recently as two decades ago.
With dialysis, which is expensive, those with kidney failure can expect to live five years; without it, life expectancy is in the weeks. Of course, heat stress promises to pummel us in places other than our kidneys, too. As I type that sentence, in the California desert in mid-June, it is degrees outside my door.
It is not a record high. Praying for cornfields in the tundra. Climates differ and plants vary, but the basic rule for staple cereal crops grown at optimal temperature is that for every degree of warming, yields decline by 10 percent. Some estimates run as high as 15 or even 17 percent. Which means that if the planet is five degrees warmer at the end of the century, we may have as many as 50 percent more people to feed and 50 percent less grain to give them.
And proteins are worse: It takes 16 calories of grain to produce just a single calorie of hamburger meat, butchered from a cow that spent its life polluting the climate with methane farts. Pollyannaish plant physiologists will point out that the cereal-crop math applies only to those regions already at peak growing temperature, and they are right — theoretically, a warmer climate will make it easier to grow corn in Greenland.
But as the pathbreaking work by Rosamond Naylor and David Battisti has shown, the tropics are already too hot to efficiently grow grain, and those places where grain is produced today are already at optimal growing temperature — which means even a small warming will push them down the slope of declining productivity. Precipitation is notoriously hard to model, yet predictions for later this century are basically unanimous: unprecedented droughts nearly everywhere food is today produced.
By , without dramatic reductions in emissions, southern Europe will be in permanent extreme drought, much worse than the American dust bowl ever was. The same will be true in Iraq and Syria and much of the rest of the Middle East; some of the most densely populated parts of Australia, Africa, and South America; and the breadbasket regions of China.
Remember, we do not live in a world without hunger as it is. Far from it: Most estimates put the number of undernourished at million globally. What happens when the bubonic ice melts? Rock, in the right spot, is a record of planetary history, eras as long as millions of years flattened by the forces of geological time into strata with amplitudes of just inches, or just an inch, or even less.
Ice works that way, too, as a climate ledger, but it is also frozen history, some of which can be reanimated when unfrozen. There are now, trapped in Arctic ice, diseases that have not circulated in the air for millions of years — in some cases, since before humans were around to encounter them.
Which means our immune systems would have no idea how to fight back when those prehistoric plagues emerge from the ice. The Arctic also stores terrifying bugs from more recent times. As the BBC reported in May, scientists suspect smallpox and the bubonic plague are trapped in Siberian ice, too — an abridged history of devastating human sickness, left out like egg salad in the Arctic sun.
But already last year, a boy was killed and 20 others infected by anthrax released when retreating permafrost exposed the frozen carcass of a reindeer killed by the bacteria at least 75 years earlier; 2, present-day reindeer were infected, too, carrying and spreading the disease beyond the tundra.
What concerns epidemiologists more than ancient diseases are existing scourges relocated, rewired, or even re-evolved by warming. The first effect is geographical.
Before the early-modern period, when adventuring sailboats accelerated the mixing of peoples and their bugs, human provinciality was a guard against pandemic. But as the tropics creep northward and mosquitoes migrate with them, you will. As it happens, Zika may also be a good model of the second worrying effect — disease mutation.
But there are things we do know for sure about how climate affects some diseases: Malaria, for instance, thrives in hotter regions not just because the mosquitoes that carry it do, too, but because for every degree increase in temperature, the parasite reproduces ten times faster. Which is one reason that the World Bank estimates that by , 5. A rolling death smog that suffocates millions. Our lungs need oxygen, but that is only a fraction of what we breathe.
The fraction of carbon dioxide is growing: It just crossed parts per million, and high-end estimates extrapolating from current trends suggest it will hit 1, ppm by At that concentration, compared to the air we breathe now, human cognitive ability declines by 21 percent.
Other stuff in the hotter air is even scarier, with small increases in pollution capable of shortening life spans by ten years. In South Asia, increasing temperatures, sea level rise, more frequent cyclones, flooding of river systems fed by melting glaciers, and other extreme weather events are exacerbating current internal and international migration patterns.
Additionally, rapid economic growth and urbanization are accelerating and magnifying the impact and drivers of climate change—the demand for energy is expected to grow 66 percent by Northwest Africa is facing rising sea levels, drought, and desertification.
These conditions will only add to the already substantial number of seasonal migrants and put added strain on the country of origin, as well as on destination countries and the routes migrants travel. The destabilizing effects of climate change should be of great concern to all those who seek security and stability in the region. Climate and security experts often cite the impacts of the extreme drought in Syria that preceded the civil war. The intersection of climate change and migration requires new, nimble, and comprehensive solutions to the multidimensional challenges it creates.
Accordingly, the signatories to the Paris Agreement on climate change requested that the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage Associated with Climate Change WIM develop recommendations for addressing people displaced by climate change. As gradually worsening climate patterns and, even more so, severe weather events, prompt an increase in human mobility, people who choose to move will do so with little legal protection.
The current system of international law is not equipped to protect climate migrants, as there are no legally binding agreements obliging countries to support climate migrants. While climate migrants who flee unbearable conditions resemble refugees, the legal protections afforded to refugees do not extend to them. In the aftermath of World War II, the United Nations established a system to protect civilians who had been forced from their home countries by political violence.
Today, there are almost But with no organized effort to supervise the migrant population, these desperate individuals go where they can, not necessarily where they should.
As their numbers grow, it will become increasingly difficult for the international community to ignore this challenge. However, opening that debate in the current political context would be fraught with difficulty. Currently, the nationalist, anti-immigrant, and xenophobic atmosphere in Europe and the U. While there are no legally binding international regimes that protect climate migrants, there are voluntary compacts that could be used to support them.
Category 4 hurricanes have sustained wind of mph. During Category 4 storms catastrophic damage will occur. Most trees will be snapped or uprooted and power poles downed. Fallen trees and power poles will isolate residential areas. Power outages will last weeks to possibly months. Most of the area will be uninhabitable for weeks or months. Catastrophic damage will occur during Category 5 storms.
A high percentage of framed homes will be destroyed, with total roof failure and wall collapse. Power outages will last for weeks to possibly months. While all hurricanes are dangerous to those in their paths, people tend to focus on Category 5 hurricanes since they are at the top of the scale.
Many people ask how many Category 5 hurricanes have hit the U. While 34 Category 5 storms are on record in the Atlantic basin, the number making landfall is quite small. Only four Category 5 storms have made landfall in the U.
Camille Andrew Michael While these storms were Category 5 when they made landfall, none of them are considered the deadliest or most destructive in history. You can jump to our list of the five deadliest hurricanes to find out more.
Until the early s, forecasters tracked hurricanes by the year and the order the storms occurred. Over time this practice grew confusing, especially when multiple storms churned at the same time. In the United States began using female names for storms. They later incorporated male names in to identify Northern Pacific Storms.
How do we decide which names to use? The World Meteorological Organization has a strict procedure. For Atlantic hurricanes there is a list of male and female names which are used on a six-year rotation. The only time that changes is when a storm is extremely deadly or costly. Then that name is retired. In the event that 21 named tropical cyclones occur in a season, any additional storms will take names from the Greek alphabet.
Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Sandy, Hurricane Florence, and other low category hurricanes that caused a lot of destruction once they made landfall prove hurricane categories can be a little deceiving. In fact, flooding because of storm surge and high rain rates are more deadly during hurricanes. You can read his entire argument, but basically he believes that meteorologists need to stress the impacts beyond the category and winds of a hurricane and reorder the messaging to start with safety first.
How dangerous are hurricanes? Hurricanes are one of the most dangerous weather events because there are so many risks that come along with them. Flooding causes a lot of damage and dangerous conditions for people on the ground. During a hurricane flooding happens for a number of reasons. One of those reasons is storm surge.
Storm surge can reach heights well over 20 feet and can span hundreds of miles of coastline. When the astronomical tide and storm surge come in at the same time, we call that a storm tide.
According to NOAA, the destructive power of storm surge and large battering waves can result in loss of life, buildings destroyed, beach and dune erosion, and road and bridge damage along the coast. Storm surge can also travel several miles inland.
Another hurricane danger that contributes to flooding — even inland — is heavy rainfall. Affiliate System. Gift Certificates. Create Content for your Favorite Games. About Us. Privacy Policy. Our Latest Newsletter. Product Reviews. Newsletter RSS Feed. Start Over Advanced Search. Products found in this section Rough and tumble humans ready to mine asteroids or crew your ship!
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