War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Weather and its ascribed consequences continue to hold sway this late-afternoon Saturday here in California’s Central Valley, we’re heavy-hot as we’re forecast for another ‘mega-heat-wave’ type-roll for the next few days, but happily not all that intense: In the original ‘mega-heat-wave in Canada last month, more deaths occurred than first reported — via CTV News…
Genius in rhythm and time — saw this earlier today at Miss Cellania‘s and it’s one of those can’t-look-away thingies: Now, guaranteed to bring you right back down — weather-impacts off climate change are being experienced worldwide, and maybe escalating, too. Not only out here in the West with our ‘heat domes,’ but also with…
In surfing the InterWebs this afternoon, scrolling across news stories on Joe Biden’s speech, COVID anti-vaxxers, Texas Demo legislators fleeing the state to keep Repubs from choking-to-death the right to vote, a new T-Rump book revealing he’s an even worse piece-of-shit/asshole then we all thought (shock!), along with numerous other headline items, I ventured onto…
A bit cooler than ‘normal‘ this late-morning Monday here in California’s Central Valley, though, we’re scheduled for triple-digit temperatures again today, it’s off the full-blown crazy of this past weekend. Supposedly, we’re on a downward slide from this particular ‘mega-heat-wave’ with temps set for the low 90s by Friday, but back up for Saturday and…
Good afternoon. Warmer-than-warm this Friday — started this post originally for yesterday afternoon, but got sidesteped by an earthquake, nothing heavy. After the excitement, the settling-down and figuring-out what to do, I guickly banged out a post about the experience, plus California and earthquakes, in near-real-time, thus, didn’t have the fortitude or drive to get…
Another post of weather and climate, brought-on this time by forecasts for my little bit of ground here in California’s Central Valley to undergo maybe a ‘sun’s anvil‘ facsimile of mega-hot days, and, shit-on-a-stick, will aparently start tomorrow. Triple-digit temperatures are charted upward starting Thursday (104-degrees), Friday and Saturday (110), to Sunday apex of 113-degrees,…
Weather and climate continue to be a major news items — today it’s Storm Surge Watches for SW Florida off the approaching Tropical Storm Elsa, weather wise — and reports how a changing, warming climate is freaking out the weather. Difference between weather and climate? Easy — according to the NOAA: ‘Think about it this…
(Illustration: ‘Landscape of Change,’ by Jill Pelto, and found here). Hot and dry this Saturday afternoon here in California’s Central Valley, and though it’s warm, it’s nothing like the last week or so. Outside it’s even comfortable, but I should enjoy it while I can, forecasts for the temperature-burners to be lit-up again starting next…
One continuing reflected aspect of the boiling-over heat wave that placed a ‘dome’ of suffering over the US Northwest and Canada the past week is that climate change is real, here right now, and bad as shit: In Canada, great heat is an oddity, a situation that’s dangerously changing — from CBC News this morning:…
Hardcore story ending badly today pumped by climate change: The town noted above, Lytton, was the centerpiece news-spot this past week after breaking the record for highest temperature ever recorded in Canada three days in a row. Now the heat has really arrived — via CTV News this afternoon: After a dangerous fire forced all…
