Morning Mourning
October 7, 2010A view of the future as the now: Hungarian sludge worker. (Illustration found here). A dam holding back acres of toxic red sludge from a metals plant in Ajka, located 100 miles southwest of Budapest,…
Category Archives: Cloud Gazing
“Life Back”
September 29, 2010We all remember what’s-his ass, Tony Hayward, whining last spring about this inconvenient oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico: “The first thing to say is I’m sorry,†he told reporters, when asked what he…
Coffeehouse Climate and ‘Generation Hot’
September 25, 2010As anyone gifted should know, a cigarette and a cup of coffee is the maximus-a-mode in a perfect remedial coupling — no matter the clock face. And then, take that coupling, couple it with an…
Bad Sun Shining
September 24, 2010Beyond peak oil, climate change, the financial meltdown, peak soil, the GOP’s “Pledge to America,” the death of Eddie Fisher, the population bomb, etc., etc. — what else could possibly disrupt my golden years? From…
Canary In Ice
September 5, 2010One of those extremely-dramatic moments, though, executed in easy, slow steps: Scientists studying an Indonesian tropical glacier witnessed first hand life with climate change: The glacier was literally melting under their feet. From NPR (including…
Pessimistic Realist
September 4, 2010Ocean water all over is apparently getting warmer. Above the Bering Strait, in the Chukchi Sea, northwest of Alaska, the water there is nearly pool worthy as recorded in this captain’s blog: “The water temperature…
Sweet in the Chaos of Sour
August 12, 2010In the daily grind — it’s early AM in California again — there’s some notice of just how sweet little things can be, something to slow the sliver of wood-fragment-splinter of bad shit covering the…
Vats of Fire And Rain — ‘Extreme Events’
August 10, 2010The future cooks while humanity cries through the looking glass: As the climate warms, we expect heat waves to become more frequent (Ganguly et al., 2009). Now there is still considerable uncertainty on where the…
Weather as Climate
August 2, 2010New book out Tuesday on weather and climate change. Heidi Cullen, The Weather Channel‘s on-air climate specialist, is the author of The Weather of the Future: Heat Waves, Extreme Storms, and Other Scenes from a…
Earth Under the Weather
August 1, 2010As this summer carves its way through the year, any dumb-ass can see something fishy is going on with the planet’s weather systems, like an old, old radiator busting its seams — heat and more…