Weather Come Lately
March 2, 2011Expect more intense weather such as the repeating winter storms in the eastern US in the immediate future and for decades to come “until the climate grows so warm that we pass the point where…
Category Archives: Environment
Nuclear Exchange: ‘A Real Bummer’
February 26, 2011In the last few years, nuclear war and nuclear weapons has taken somewhat of a back seat to more conventional forms of killing (AK-47s, tanks, etc.) and even to the mega-simple (IEDs), but earlier this…
Clueless — ‘Worrisome to Dire’
February 24, 2011Canadians — what can you do? From a new poll by two Canadian organizations, the Public Policy Forum and Sustainable Prosperity: The survey, released Wednesday, found that 80 per cent of Canadians polled said they believe…
Hoot to Climate Change
February 23, 2011Interesting, new evidence of climate change via The Atlantic Wire: A study carried out over thirty years and published recently in the journal Nature Communications showed that while grey tawny owls had higher survival rates…
Bottom Up
February 21, 2011(Illustration found here). The abstract from a new study via Tellus: The thaw and release of carbon currently frozen in permafrost will increase atmospheric CO2 concentrations and amplify surface warming to initiate a positive permafrost…
Crisis Cycles
February 19, 2011Rare for me to be up this early on a Saturday, yet here I am at 4 AM peeking at a world seemingly gone mad as a hatter. The hourglass is empty The horsemen are…
Solar Bombardment
February 17, 2011(PM UPDATE BELOW) Run away, run away…but where? (Illustration found here). Last Monday, a huge event on earth’s sun occurred — called the largest solar explosion since 2006 — and sent massive super-charged bright sparks…
Bees Needs — Pollinate Thyself
February 8, 2011As climate change continues its unchecked advance upon the deep-blue planet, disrupting everything we now consider, all kinds of weird and ominous shit are coming to dangerous, life-threatening surface. And like a lot of other…
Krugman at 4 AM — Bad News on the Doorstep, and Ringing the Chimes
February 7, 2011As events continue to dramatically unfold in Cairo’s Liberty Square, the US also persists in propping up other assholes around the world beyond Hosni Mubarak, who is clinging to power despite the last two weeks.…
What Weather?
February 4, 2011In the last month, the weather here on California’s northern coast has been near splendid — indeed, some old timers are wondering whether it’s June, and not the dread of winter. Sunny days, mild temperatures…