Category: Cloud Gazing

Climate Change At Work Again In The Pacific Northwest: Efforts To Combat World Warming Need Bolstering — ‘A Lot Of Inaction That Gets Disguised As Flexibility, And We’re Past That Time’ And On A Short Road To Catastrophe

by climate change, atmospheric rivers, Cloud Gazing, Environment, History, Politics, Weather

(Illustration found here). As weather events are more and more being closely tied to climate change and the short shadow from the just-completed COP26 (which was another climate-action cop-out) is still weighing heavily in the brain, the storms in the Pacific Northwest keeps reminding all of us of a dire and precarious future close at…

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Sunday Serenade Silently Screaming — ‘Into The fog Where No One Notices The Contrast Of White On White’

by Cloud Gazing, Environment, History, Media, music, Politics

Leaving the dismal news cycle alone for a bit this Sunday morning, and fastening our anxiety-anxious view to some music I’d listened to or mulled over this past week and on how appropriate the sound for the nowadays. Off one of the best albums of the 1990s, “August and Everything After,” a couple of tracks…

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Climate Change: G20 A Wimpy Bust, Future Of Mankind Might Rest With COP26 — ‘A Daunting Task’

by climate change, Cloud Gazing, Environment, Health, History, Media, Politics, Weather

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 meeting of the G20 in Rome ended, the UN’s 26th Climate Change Conference opened in Glasgow, Scotland, and the weight…

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Solar Flare In Time For Halloween!

by Cloud Gazing, Earth Day, Environment, History, Media, Politics

Skies will supposedly light up for Halloween this weekend thanks to a sun-stroked solar flare: (Video of yesterday’s solar activity found here). A bit of whimsy this morning in the face of ugly planet-bound news — a colorful sparkle for Sunday. Details via Space.com this morning: A massive solar flare from the sun could lead…

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‘Pineapple Express’ To Drench California — Albeit Drought Resistant, However

by Cloud Gazing, climate change, Health, History, infrastructure, Politics, Weather

Overcast this late-afternoon Saturday here in California’s Central Valley, a set-up for the massive rainstorms coming tomorrow and lasting through Monday — an early-in-the-season ‘atmospheric river‘ is expected to dump 1.5-to-2-inches of rain on us here in the lowlands, snow and even wetter in the foothills and mountains. We’re duly warned: All that rain will…

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Nine/Eleven: The Day Before — ‘Unless There’s A War’

by Cloud Gazing, 9/11, George W Bush, History, Media, Politics, Terror

(Illustration: Untitled (1981), by Jean-Michel Basquiat, and found here). Today 20 years ago was a Monday. Although I’ve tried to remember how that particular day felt, other than another beautiful day in San Luis Obispo, California, and any sense at all about a quickly-coming, history-shifting event was way-zilch, and way-non-existent. Other than the beginning to…

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Time Is Of The Essence — Climate Change Warning (Again!)

by climate change, Cloud Gazing, Environment, Health, History, Madness, Media, Politics, Weather

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 220 of the planet’s leading medical and public health journals issued an urgent rallying cry to address climate change on…

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Saturday Musical Introspective: Songs From Long-Ago Memory

by Cloud Gazing, History, Media, music, Politics

In a non-contextual free-form this Saturday morning, and amongst savage news stories, I’m slipping back some 47 years, back to 1974 — I graduated from the University of Florida that June and spent the summer (when not working the loading dock at the Sears-Roebuck store in Gainesville — my job during the last two years…

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