Category: Environment

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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Russian Space Blunder Could Put ISS In Jeopardy — An ‘Unconscionable Action’

by Environment, History, Politics

(Illustration: International Space Station (art print), and found here). Plenty of action on the news front this Monday — Steve Bannon turned himself in after being indicted Friday for contempt of Congress, calling it “the misdemeanor from hell,” and still appeared hobo-nasty; Joe Biden signed the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill at the White House, a…

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UN Chief António Guterres On COP26 Agreement — ‘We Are Still Knocking On The Door Of Climate Catastrophe’

by climate change, Environment, History, Madness, Politics, Weather

As the world weathers the accelerating impacts of climate change, attendees to COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, finally reached an agreement, though, the entire affair could be another “blah, blah, blah” episode. Nutshell via The Washington Post this afternoon: Saturday’s agreement, however, does not achieve the most ambitious goal of the 2015 Paris accord — to…

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COVID Pandemic Revealed As A Great National Divider (Science-Sane vs Idiot-Insane) — Will That Matter In Unifying To Combat Climate Change?

by climate change, Environment, History, Media, Politics, Weather

Deep, wet fog this near-mid-day Saturday here in California’s Central Valley —  a yearly staple for the region, tule fog, which can get thicker-than-shit. However, like a lot of other environmental phenomena nowadays, tule fog is slowly vanishing — when I lived here in the mid-1980s, the fog lasted months, but now it’s down to…

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Climate Change Heat: Quickest Temperature Rise In 24,000 Years — The Clock Is Melting!

by climate change, Environment, Health, History, Politics

(Illustration by Arne Dedert/Picture, Alliance/Getty Images, and found here). Despite some decent news today at the COP26 gathering in Glasgow, Scotland, the end results of this UN conference on climate change is up in the polluted air with a draft agreement looking good now, but shitty later — from The Washington Post this afternoon: The…

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COP26 And Failure To Handle Climate Change — ‘Glasgow Has A Serious Credibility Gap’

by climate change, Environment, Health, History, Politics

(Illustration found here). Despite a shitload of all kinds of nefarious events gripping like a snapping turtle at the brain, climate change continues to look like a horror story coming alive, as I’d bemoaned before, we’re watching the end of the world on our laptops. COP26, now in its second week in Glasgow, Scotland, has…

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Obama At COP26: ‘Nowhere Near Where We Need To Be’

by Barack Obama, Environment, History, Media, Politics

Dark overcast this late-afternoon Monday here in California’s Central Valley — rain maybe tonight and in the morning. Barack Obama spoke today at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, and despite being enthusiastically applauded, even he sounded a bit pessimistic, though, history was working against him. Obama’s appearance marks the years: Global views of…

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Tower Of Lies And Fraud: ‘Hard To Imagine’ How Shitty The Future

by coronavirus, climate change, Environment, Health, History, Lying, Media, Orwellian, Politics, Republicans

Couple of important, and deadly news stories this Monday morning (among a shitload, I know), which paint a terrible future. First and most immediate — COVID is now indeed a Red beast: (Illustration: Source: New York Times database, Edison Research; and found here). A real, hardcase reason we’ll seemingly never get rid of COVID, 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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Greta Thunberg: COP26 No Real Climate Conference, More ‘A Global Greenwashing Festival’

by climate change, Environment, History, Politics, Weather

Sunshine coupled with cool breezes makes for a fall-like late-afternoon Saturday here in California’s Central Valley — near perfect for tomorrow’s fall-back day. Meanwhile, on the subject of climate and its corresponding weather, COP26 continues in Glasgow, Scotland, where today there was more excitement and news from outside the conference rooms as thousands took to…

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