Death Valley No Longer Hottest Spot on Earth, And Arctic Sea Ice Thinning ‘Twice As Fast As Previously Thought’ — Duh!

(Illustration: Section of the Dash-E Lut desert, located in Iran. Image found here). Once considerd for a long time the hottest spot on earth, California’s own Death Valley, has now lost the hot seat to two other sites across the globe, according to a new study — Iran’s Lut Desert (pictured above), and the Sonoran…

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UFOs: Aliens Or Not — US Intel Can’t Say Other Than ‘Close Encounters’ Of The Baffling Kind

Nice drop to a Friday semi-crazy news dump, and who would have guessed UFOs would receive sincere appraisal from government agencies, especially NASA, but we live in all-around strange times. From Wikipedia: ‘In ufology, a close encounter is an event in which a person witnesses an unidentified flying object.‘ Hence, here we are: Details per…

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Earth’s Climate Could Be Near A ‘Tipping Point,’ Creating ‘An Existential Threat To Civilisation’ — Meanwhile, The UN’s IMO Is In Bed With Polluters

(Illustration  ‘Tipping Point,’ by Ingram Pinn, and found here). Beyond the normal shitstorms of modern life in real time, probably and most-likely the greatest horror facing all of us here on planet earth inches forward quickly, though in a more-subtle motion, to a decisive break where we’d be f*cked no matter what we do —…

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Asteroid Attack: NASA Reports Five Headed For Close-By Earth Runs; Three Today, Two Tomorrow

Among the wonderful tribute, space rocks heading our way: Beyond earth on Memorial Day, NASA also reported big space rocks have/are-going to hurdle pass our planet — three were scheduled for today — one the size of a bus (90,000 miles from earth), another about car size (about 110,00 miles close to earth), and the…

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Hot-Apocalypse Now: High Temps, California, Western US In Drought Conditions — Fires Up

Hot! The operative word this Memorial Day here in California’s Central Valley — we’re forecast to hit triple-digits today for the first time this year (104-degrees) and the same hateful-heat is expected the next couple of days, then falling into the 90s toward the end of the week. My area is under what could easily…

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Climate Change: Yep, The World Is Still Getting Hotter, And Maybe A Bit Faster, Too — Have A Nice Day

As we wander through today’s bitter-sweet events, from Joe Biden ice cream comments about GQPers opposed to the Jan. 6 insurrection/riot commission to “Eat some chocolate chocolate chip,” to Mitch McConnell going in the opposite direction, pleading with Republican Senators to resist the commission as “a personal favor” to him, and all the similarly ridiculous…

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Most-Nauseating Visual Of The Day (Or Maybe Forever): Ted Cruz Eats A Fly — Make You Want To Blow Chunks

During a regular daily-blog surf this morning I came across a horror video — worse than shitty, but yet for the subject, natural in character (h/t tweet Vixen Strangely): And to pile on: By pure chance I spied this a short time after while searching for something else — and it fucking fit like Ex-Lax…

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Lunar Eclipse — ‘Super Blood Moon’ Tomorrow Morning, Along With Other Shit

(Ilustration: Stages of total lunar eclipse in Universal Time (GMT), and found here). A lunar eclipse tomorrow morning to break the horror of political life down here on the flatlands of the mountains we have to cross every f*cking day. If you get up early — pre-dawn — here in California, you’ll be able to…

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Climate Change: Arctic Heating Way-Faster Than Previously Figured

Along with a shitload of other deadly stuff creepy-crawling about the worldwide landscape, more warnings today about the continued and worsening climate crisis with a new report-update again noting the situation is really worse than was figured last year — the Arctic is really heating-up, which is bad news for the rest of our planet:…

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UFO Sensibilities

In a break from below-ground chaos from Republicans, rattling cages in all direction, a quick look this Wednesday afternoon at the advancing news-cycle item of unidentified flying objects, which seems to have gained reputable status lately. Although ‘UFOs’ have been part of American folklore for decades, from science-fiction movies/novels and what-not, it’s begining to look…

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