War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
In the daily grind — it’s early AM in California again — there’s some notice of just how sweet little things can be, something to slow the sliver of wood-fragment-splinter of bad shit covering the news of the world. I’ve sent this to a couple of my children — one posted it on her Facebook…
The future cooks while humanity cries through the looking glass: As the climate warms, we expect heat waves to become more frequent (Ganguly et al., 2009). Now there is still considerable uncertainty on where the heat waves will occur, that seems to depend on the climate model used. However, the physics of heat waves do…
New book out Tuesday on weather and climate change. Heidi Cullen, The Weather Channel‘s on-air climate specialist, is the author of The Weather of the Future: Heat Waves, Extreme Storms, and Other Scenes from a Climate-Changed Planet, in which local conditions are the up-close and personal of what is occurring with the planet. AP has…
As this summer carves its way through the year, any dumb-ass can see something fishy is going on with the planet’s weather systems, like an old, old radiator busting its seams — heat and more heat. Global warming might be beyond the “tipping point.” (Illustration found here). Climate change has always been a serious subject…
As the economy tanks, people seem to be drinking their financial problems away, as research indicates more US peoples are hitting the bottle, with more white guys getting bombed than any other ethnic group. Free, white and drunk: Whites are more likely than blacks and Hispanics to get drunk. Twenty percent of white men drank…
Lack of friendship is supposedly worse on your well being than a Quadruple Bypass Burger from the Heart Attack Grill. From Reuters on a report released Tuesday by a research team at Brigham Young University: Having good social relationships — friends, marriage or children — may be every bit as important to a healthy lifespan as…
Long ago, when in high school, I lost almost $100 somewhere after a shopping trip. My mother — always aware of how a bit means a lot, and even with the money being my own hard-earned cash — went nearly ballistic. Nowadays, nothing of the sort happens, no fits pitched, no hand-wringing, no talking about…
In the midst of bad news from many quarters, this latest does make one feel better. From Wired: That asteroid is Apophis, a 900-foot asteroid. Calculations released on Christmas Eve 2004 appeared to show that there was a greater than 2 percent chance the asteroid would hit the Earth in 2029. The asteroid appeared ready…
Copenhagen: Tempers flared Monday at the United Nations climate summit as poor nations staged a walkout to protest what they called inadequate aid offers from rich countries, and the U.S. and China jockeyed for position. The talks have become what one observer called a “farce,” as guidelines agreed on two years ago are not even…
Nearly in a near-panic. Wikipedia:Â Oceanic anoxic events or anoxic events occur when the Earth’s oceans become completely depleted of oxygen (O2) below the surface levels. Although anoxic events have not happened for millions of years, the geological record shows that they happened many times in the past. Anoxic events may have caused mass extinctions. These…