War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Overcast and chilly this early Tuesday on California’s north coast — weather we like it or not. And not liking it — a new report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) indicates the environment sucks worse than it has in 30 years. The clock hands are moving, though — WMO Secretary-General Michel Jarraud: “Past, present…
Another damp, foggy morning on California’s north coast as Monday starts another round of life — and a still-odd sense being in a “retired” state of mind. Mondays ain’t the same without no job. My insomnia is still with me, though, and I endured a long night’s journey to daylight to get here. Although I…
Last week, a federal judge in New Orleans ruled the 2010 Deepwater Horizon debacle was the result of BP’s “willful misconduct” and “gross negligence.” And can we hear a…’Duh!’ Yet fit to be tied with their panties in a bind. Via Grist: On Wednesday night — just hours before the court’s ruling — Geoff Morrell, the…
Thick fog again this Sunday morning on California’s north coast, and although the song remains the same, the tune could change. One interesting note from the 6.0 earthquake two weeks ago (today) down in Napa — an aid in vetting ground water as dry streams get water for the first time — via the San…
Drippy, damp fog this early Saturday on California’s north coast. Part/parcel of the weather heritage up here, and maybe for summer seashores all over — fog in the morning, a breeze with sunshine in the afternoon — except yesterday, when the fog near-about remained. And tomorrow afternoon, fog or no fog, another big piece of…
Fog-city this early Friday on California’s north coast, and quiet — no sound from westward and the Pacific Ocean, either. Clear, crisp and sunny fall-like morning’s we’d had the past three/four days are gone, back to a our summer-extension’s normal of a sad-sack’s deep gray. And a drought-related bit: Appears less and less likely there’s…
Although summer’s still warm on the backside, and it’s only early September, cold weather is closer than just-around-the-corner — last month, old reliable, the weather-worn Farmers’ Almanac predicted, “…frigid conditions, bitter conditions,” for this coming winter. They prognosticated a similar prognosis for 2013/14, and were very-much correct. Two words with only one season’s worth of common…
Fog-bound this early Tuesday on California’s north coast, but just a wee-bit to the east are huge chunks of deep-growth forests, dry and waterless, and in some places, on fire. A moist shoreline and a tinderbox interior. Countrywide, a variety of weather shit, though, tornadoes twisted across diverse locales — a four-minute one early yesterday…
Foggy and chilly this early Saturday on California’s north coast — an ordinary start to this three-day Labor Day weekend. But who’s counting? Always kind of moist here on the rim of the Pacific Ocean, but a few feet inland and heat takes a turn for the worse. In the dry-midst of a continuing drought,…
A huge, banner head at the top of HuffPost this afternoon quickly snapped at me — ‘Here…Human-caused…Already dangerous…Likely irreversible,’ and with that last word knew it had something to do with climate change. And sure enough, the latest draft of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as been leaked to the media, and like…
