Lying to the Living
December 3, 2018Cold and dark this Monday evening on California’s north coast — although sunny most of the day, the late-afternoon got cloudy and deep gray — not abnormal around here for just about anytime of the…
Category Archives: Environment
‘The Confused US President’ and ‘Self-reinforcing Feedbacks’
December 1, 2018Once again, Argentina doesn’t cry: Something moronic and oafish comes our way, represents us on a literal world stage: After pausing for a couple photos, Trump is seen on video shaking Macri’s hand and then…
‘This Giant Disconnect’ — “…they said I looked like Elvis”
November 26, 2018Another Monday here on California’s north coast, and another lark of sorrow — the T-Rump’s hard-headed, bat-shit-crazy take on that devastating climate-change report from last Friday (HuffPost): “I don’t believe it,” he told reporters outside…
Climate Change — Tossed in the Friday News Dump
November 23, 2018Insult to injury sort of, climate change continues unabated — new report yesterday on greenhouse gases from the World Meteorological Organization Bad bottom line per Common Dreams: “The last time the Earth experienced a comparable…
‘Negative Rain’ — Water, Water
November 12, 2018Foggy and chilly on this early-evening Monday on California’s north cast — a much different situation here than in some parts of the state. Wildfires are screaming up and down California — two big blazes…
Tropical Forests CO2 ‘Source’ — Alarming Study
September 28, 2017(Illustration found here). Even among the weird weather here on California’s north coast, a report this morning a bellwether/watershed story — via the Guardian: The world’s tropical forests are so degraded they have become a…
Heat Bordering on Hot
September 2, 2017Sunshine, and Whoa! Mid-morning Saturday finds this little stretch of the northern California coast sitting at 91.1-degrees, at least according to the WunderBlog‘s local weather thingy, and for us, that’s a-boiling. Or just weird: the…
Harvey Horror: Chem Calamity
August 30, 2017(Illustration found here). Beyond the mournful images of Hurricane Harvey’s staggering-impact on southeast Texas, the narrative could spin into a scenario of the worse kind of nightmare. Along the coast are a way-shitload of chemical…
Weather Location
August 29, 2017Overcast mingled with patchy ground fog this Tuesday morning on California’s north coast — short weather version, ‘AM Fog/PM Sun,’ reflects our normal in the face of extremes elsewhere. Later this week, maybe already, another…
Climate-Change Heat — ‘Windows’ of ‘Maybe’
August 1, 2017Sunshine and warmth again this Tuesday afternoon on California’s north coast — we’re sitting near 70-degrees here close to 5 o’clock, forecast for the high-70s along the shoreline for tomorrow and Thursday. Sweet here, but way-hot-shitty…