Overcast with an occasional splash of faded-yellow sunshine this late afternoon Sunday here in California’s Central Valley — scary-boo night coming, so all is not well. And in a split-screen effect today, just as the…
(Illustration: ‘Increasing Forest Fire Activity,’ (watercolor and colored pencil, 2015), by Jill Pelto, and found here). On the eve of the UN climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland, our environment is reeling from one catastrophe to…
Partly cloudy with an occasional glimpse of sunshine here in California’s Central Valley — our version of the first big storm of the season was quick and short with hard rain ending this morning. Although…
(Illustration: ‘Mammoths from the Ice Age,’ 1969 (gouache on paper), by Angus McBride, and found here). Overcast and maybe a bit on the warm side this late-afternoon Wednesday here in California’s Central Valley — rain…
(Illustration: Famous Santa Monica, California, Pier with 1.5°C (2.7°F) rise in global temperatures, and found here). Way-windy and chilly this mid-day Tuesday here in California’s Central Valley, but nowhere as fierce as yesterday’s blustery time…
Windy and a bit on the chilly side this late-afternoon Tuesday here in California’s Central Valley — after months of outrageous heat, a weather shift in a time of climate change. And of which, climate-change…
(Illustration: ‘Mosiak II,’ by MC Escher, and found here). I caught the headlines Friday, and maybe a quick scan of a couple of articles, but nothing in-depth and no post (although I generally post major…
On this day after here in California, it’s back off the recall and to the business of wildfires, which are made worse by climate change, which seems to be in the early stages of being…
Another major red-flag warning on the here-and-now-but-worse-in-the-immediate-future thingie of climate change — a call from professionals/scientists to turn the boat — yesterday a big editorial: Nutshell via HuffPost this morning: A coalition of more than…
Slightly warm at a cool 88-degrees this late-afternoon Thursday here in California’s Central Valley, and we’re still clear of smoke from our rampant wildfire war being waged up and down the state. Although there are…