Category Archives: climate change

Dreaded ‘Dome’ Returns/Continues/Never Went Away — Boiling-Hot Temperatures Coming Quickly For US West, Canada

July 7, 2021

Another post of weather and climate, brought-on this time by forecasts for my little bit of ground here in California’s Central Valley to undergo maybe a ‘sun’s anvil‘ facsimile of mega-hot days, and, shit-on-a-stick, will…

Climate Change Is Here! — Part Infinity

July 3, 2021

(Illustration: ‘Landscape of Change,’ by Jill Pelto, and found here). Hot and dry this Saturday afternoon here in California’s Central Valley, and though it’s warm, it’s nothing like the last week or so. Outside it’s…

Michael Mann: ‘That Heat Dome? Yeah, It’s Climate Change’

June 30, 2021

As weather/climate change has become a major, near-continous, much-copious series of news stories, this a fortuitous film moment in Kansas: Not much information beyond the video — did find this via Yahoo: ‘In the midst…

UN Climate-Change Draft Report: ‘The Worse Is Yet To Come,’ And Sooner, Too

June 23, 2021

Briefly brushing aside politics for a moment, let’s take another peek at a fully-formed catastrophe that will soon be the headliner — climate change. Although today here in California’s Central Valley is really nice —…

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…