A Dog’s Paw: Climate’s Crusade
June 16, 2011The very most-wonderful dog I ever had was a Springer Spaniel (very similar to the one shown at left) named Bogie, one sweet animal given to me as a puppy. He was a pure breed,…
Category Archives: Environment
Up, Down and Getting Hotter
June 12, 2011On Friday, I put another $20 worth of fuel in the old Jeep, gas now down to $4.19 a gallon for regular — a dime drop in just a week and nearly a quarter in…
OPEC and Price ‘Creep’
June 9, 2011‘Danger, Will Robinson, Danger.’ After bickering like a bunch of rich, spoiled brats — which they are — members of OPEC, the scary, big oil producing cartel, busted up its meeting yesterday so out-of-line with each…
Burning the Hydrocarbons
June 5, 2011On Friday, I put another $20 worth of gas in my Jeep and at $4.29 a gallon for regular — surprise, surprise, it cost the same as a week ago — first time that’s happened…
Climate Endgame — Beyond the ‘Tipping Point’
May 31, 2011Here in the wee hours of the last day of May 2011, the world keeps spinning, the rain keeps coming down (along the northern California coast) and bad shit keeps filling CBS’ early-morning-looped-news program, ‘Up…
Down is really Up
May 28, 2011Yesterday, I put $20 worth of gas in my Jeep, this time at $4.29 a gallon for regular, a shocking $.15 drop in price in just more than two weeks, the last time I put…
Tsunami Weather
May 25, 2011Air and earth has quickly become a deadly pain in the ass. Images from TV the last few days, and the last couple of months to be more precise, has reached a seemingly movie-as-real-life scenario…
Everyday Life and ‘Global Weirding’
May 24, 2011As Joplin, Missouri, gleans through horrific wreckage, the rest of us must beware of a new life style. From Reuters: Heavy rains, deep snowfalls, monster floods and killing droughts are signs of a “new normal”…
Whipped-Up-Wind as Weather
May 23, 2011As someone growing up in the US deep south, anytime there’s any mention of tornadoes gives me a deep, frightfully-shocked desire to run, run far away — even just reading about crazed funnel-clouds gives me…
Climate-nator Terminated
May 20, 2011What’s love got to do with it, do with it? And what’s up with all these high-profile people doing the nasty in a most-outrageous and public way, turning the manly phrase, ‘gettin’ a little,’ into…