Kobees Blog

March to the Tune of Celebrating Seagrass!

03/05/2024

Greetings to you! Did you know seagrass is so important that we celebrate it during the month of March? It’s true! March is Seagrass Awareness Month! So what is seagrass and why is it important? According to the National Wildlife Federation, “Seagrasses are underwater plants that...

Climate Change Unleashes First Year-Long Breach of 1.5C Limit!

02/09/2024

Greetings to you! I have some rather sad news to report – according to the EU’s climate service, “For the first time, global warming has exceeded 1.5C across an entire year.” In 2015, during the Paris Climate Accords, “World leaders promised to try to...

Discover Extraordinary Ellie Schiller Homosassa Springs State Park!

01/12/2024

A warm greetings to you! And Happy New Year! I can’t think of a better way to start out a new 2024 blog then to talk about the abundance of manatees making their winter home at Homosassa Springs State Park. Manatees are warm-blooded...

Who Says Christmas Trees Can’t Grow Underwater?

12/18/2023

A warm greetings to you! And Happy Holidays! I want to add to the celebrations happening around this time of year. And I can’t think of a better way to talk about some very interesting and uplifting news – Christmas trees! Well,...

2023 was the Hottest Year in Last 175,000!

11/20/2023

Greetings! In my recent blog, 2023 on Track for Hottest Year on Record, I talk about extreme September 2023 record heat, while at the same time, Antarctic sea ice is at record lows for the last six consecutive months. Continuing with this sobering news,...

Celebrate November – It’s Manatee Awareness Month!

11/03/2023

Greetings! Did you know that November is Manatee Awareness Month? Manatee Awareness Month was declared in 1979 by former Florida Governor Bob Graham. During that time, the state began classifying manatee protection zones, which are regions known to be manatee winter gathering spots. Manatees...

El Niño Unleashes Sizzling Sea Surface Temperatures for 2024

10/17/2023

Greetings! El Niño is a climate pattern which causes the Pacific jet stream to slide south and move to the east. It also creates “higher sea surface temperatures and precipitation across the equatorial Pacific Ocean that can affect weather across the globe.” It’s “the warm phase of...

2023 on Track for Hottest Year on Record!

10/09/2023

Greetings! This past September broke all temperature records around the world. More evidence climate change is tightening its grip on all of us. Samantha Burgess, Deputy Director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said, “The unprecedented temperatures for the time of year observed in...

Antarctica Warming at Twice the Rate Climate Models Predicted!

09/09/2023

Greetings to you! According to a recent study, “Antarctica is likely warming at almost twice the rate of the rest of the world and faster than climate change models are predicting, with potentially far-reaching implications for global sea level rise.” In the study, scientists “analyzed...

Historic Wildfire Destroys Lahaina, Hawaii

08/22/2023

Greetings! This historic and blistering summer continues breaking records. Weather whiplash undoubtedly brought on by human-caused climate changeincreased the frequency of these extreme atmospheric events. The historic Lāhainā, Hawaii wildfire earlier this month has killed at least 114 people as of this writing, with more than 800...