Oily Complexion
June 16, 2012In thinking of the past, more of the structured remembrance seems in reality an illusion — all the hype of those glorious, hey-days of the 1950s and 60s, when energy was so obviously abundant all-electric…
Category Archives: Environment
Heat Means Hot
June 8, 2012Under cloudy skies this morning up here along California’s northern coast, but still real cool — not so everywhere. One weather/environment event this week that went near-completely under the radar — hot rain in Saudi…
Pump-U-Up
April 19, 2012In the midst of people/places/things making news this week, one item seemingly absent is any hysteria over high fuel prices. Competition for news time is tight, with the vernal Dick Clark dead at 82, Leon…
Weathering Climate Change
April 15, 2012Welcome to the real future: The National Weather Service received 121 reports of possible tornado touchdowns Saturday and early Sunday in Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa. This morning also via CNN, five people, including two…
Bottom’s Up Monday
April 9, 2012Monday morning — again. And in these way-pre dawn hours here on California’s northern coast there’s quiet and peace and a bit warmer than normal. Just from the my perch, the world appears A-Okay, but…
Mosquito Maneuver
April 8, 2012In this past winter of our heated content, all those warm, blissful days in February and March — TVed from Chicago, New York and all points east — them soothing temperatures also created an incubator…
Atomic-Powered Crazy
April 7, 2012(Illustration: Salvador Dali’s ‘The Three Sphinxes of Bikini‘ found here). Apparently, another subject placed on the news cycle back-burner, thus, out of the public eye. Yesterday, from CNN on the NRC’s order putting southern California’s…
Pump Dreams
April 4, 2012Weather tends to pop its now-ugly head into modern life on a much-more frequent schedule than just a few short years ago — yesterday afternoon tornadoes cleared a chaotic path through the Dallas-Fort Worth area,…
Warmer Still — ‘No Way Out’
March 26, 2012Dramatic changes in climate are being rigged as plot devices for entertainment — ‘Are you not?’ From the New York Times review of the new film, “4:44 Last Day on Earth:” The cause of the…
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 —…