Tag Archives: Environment

Collateral Day On Mars — Afghan Edition

August 20, 2021

Another brown-tinted environment this mid-day Friday here in California’s Central Valley, painted with way-faded yellow sunshine, mingled in with a thin-overcast layer of a hazel-colored sky. Air-breathing outside literally sucks: Our region still looks like…

Rainy Days In Greenland — Heaviest Rainfall Ever In At Least 70 Years, Maybe Longer

August 19, 2021

Some more environmental shit this afternoon as climate change continues unabated — similar to COVID at a Texas Republican fundraiser — and the endgame worse. (Illustration found here). Odd events weather/climate-wise seem to be taking…

Fire And Drought — Air Like Mars

August 19, 2021

A brownish, dystopian environmental ambiance this Thursday morning in California’s Central Valley as apparently the wildfires rampaging statewide is worsening human/animal sight and breathing conditions. I took my daughter’s basset hound/greyhound mix, Leroy, for our…

Robots And Republicans And A ‘Helicopter Full Of Cash’

August 17, 2021

Some news be good today: Rescuers on Tuesday pulled 16 people out alive from rubble in Brefèt, a town in Les Cayes in the Southern department, three days after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck the area,…

Afghan Agony: Final Scream

August 15, 2021

Quick pace of the end game was astonishing — banner headlines at news outlets this Sunday afternoon: ‘Afghan Government Falls‘ (CNN); ‘Afghanistan Falls To Taliban‘ (The Washington Post); ‘Taliban Seize Afghanistan; US Scrambles To Evacuate…

Afghan Agony: Exit Includes Maybe A Massacre Or Two

August 14, 2021

In the wake of shitty domestic American fanfare — COVID surges thanks to Republican hardcore hardheadedness — the sad, shame of Afghanistan continues to unfold badly, an image of a country shattering like glass when…

NOAA: July Hottest Month Ever — ‘In This Case, First Place Is The Worst Place To Be’

August 13, 2021

Environmental news seems to pop up in the afternoons lately, and today was no exception — hot records melting in the heat: According to data released today by NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, last…

Global Emissions Must Peak Within Four Years, Or We Be Up Shit Creek Without A Paddle — Leaked UN Report

August 12, 2021

As we blunder toward the end of another work week, the climate of human society sucks through a way-small straw. If we can’t even get a portion of Americans to adopt way-obvious, life-saving methods to…

‘Heat Dome’ Weather Afresh!

August 11, 2021

Heavy-heat again this Wednesday afternoon here in California’s Central Valley, though, we’re not sweltering alone — seemingly the whole freaking world is boiling. The Pacific Northwest and BC Canada are catching the top-crust warmth with…