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…
Category Archives: Environment
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 —…
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…