Tag Archives: Environment

Arrival Of ‘The Mega-Heat Wave’ — Part Deux: Seeing Laboratory-Research Models Come Alive, ‘Surreal’

June 18, 2021

As the fever-fiery, ‘mega-heat wave‘ continues here in California’s Central Valley and across a large chunk of the western US, the Friday news dump turned out in actuality to be sort an extension of my…

Climate Scientist On Tipping Point For Global Warming: Mankind May Have ‘Already Stepped On This Mine And Already Set Off The Beginning Of The Explosion’

June 16, 2021

Set aside for a minute the Joe/Vlad face-to-face on the shores of peaceful Lake Geneva, or even the nauseous, toxix Repubican party here in the US, seeking to erase democracy, or the outbreak of vicious…

COVID Variants, A Deadly Heat Wave, And T-Rump A Psychopathic Asshole — Some News For The Day, Most Known Way-Already!

June 15, 2021

Usually, in putting together the couple of posts I do about every day, there’s always some seemingly-more interesting than the dozens of serious/important news items flashing across our screens 24/7, and one or two worthy…

California’s COVID Crusade: We Reopen! — What Next?

June 15, 2021

After an elderly guy in Placer County died in March 2020, the first COVID-19 death in California, the state with the rest of the country went into near-shock mode with lockdowns/shutdowns/stay-at-home orders, etc. that would…

Republicans Put Oil/Gas Before Climate Change — New Distraction ‘Shiny Object’ Is A Phony Care For The Environment

June 10, 2021

Beyond the anti-democratic horrors created by Republicans for this country’s immediate weeks and months, these ass-wipes are also endangering the not-so-distant future for the entire freaking planet — climate change is a most-way-real catastrophe and…

California Drought And Continuing Climate Change: Therefore — ‘A Lot Of The Slack In Our System Has Already Been Used Up’

June 7, 2021

(Illustration: US Drought Monitor, California, found here). Sunny but cooler than normal this Monday afternoon in California’s Central Valley, a seemingly off-day from the heat we’ve experienced the last week or so — yet the…

Death Valley No Longer Hottest Spot on Earth, And Arctic Sea Ice Thinning ‘Twice As Fast As Previously Thought’ — Duh!

June 5, 2021

(Illustration: Section of the Dash-E Lut desert, located in Iran. Image found here). Once considerd for a long time the hottest spot on earth, California’s own Death Valley, has now lost the hot seat to…