Not Tomorrow
March 22, 2012There’s no present. There’s only the immediate future and the recent past. –Â George Carlin On occasion there’s just too much going on to actually get a hold on some subject for a morning’s blog post,…
Category Archives: Cloud Gazing
‘Obvious Satire’
March 21, 2012“I mean, with the other guys, you can dig into their past and find at least some shred of rational thinking, even if they’re cynically downplaying it now,” Gallardo continued. “But I get the sense…
Spring Well Sprung
March 20, 2012Raining like a mad dog up here on California’s northern coast, and in the pre-dawn hours, cold as shit. And on this first day of spring, weather is screwed. And so is the world —…
Gas By Another Name — Cont.
March 18, 2012Another under-reckoning. From Nature: Recent studies have focused on the short-term contribution of the Greenland ice sheet to sea-level rise, yet little is known about its long-term stability. … Here, using a fully coupled model,…
Gas By Another Name
March 17, 2012Some joy from the Arctic Methane Emergency Group: We declare there now exists an extremely high international security risk* from abrupt and runaway global warming being triggered by the end-summer collapse of Arctic sea ice…
May’s March Madness
March 15, 2012Flowers blooming early — spring ain’t til next Tuesday: “My nightmare now is this weather,†Japanese ambassador to the U.S. Ichiro Fujisaki said at press briefing today at the National Press Building. “What are we…
News Spews
March 14, 2012People in the right-turn lane in the US South are wound up tighter than dick’s hatband: “We pray that you will lift him up and… make it known before this nation this is the man…
Fun or Not — Time’s A Flyin’
March 10, 2012Now we’re taxiing in, she says, “Welcome to O’Hare International Airport . . .” Well, how can someone who is just arriving herself possibly welcome me to a place she isn’t even at yet? Doesn’t…
Hare Today, Gone Tomorrow
March 7, 2012“The radar is picking up a line of thundershowers which extends from nine miles NNE of Sicorgus, New Jersey, along a line and six miles either side of the line to a point five miles…
Twisters on Time
March 5, 2012In terms of pure weather horror, this past week should send a complete, focused message to peoples everywhere — the climate is quickly shifting and all bets are off. Ohio Gov. John Kasich on tornadoes:…