War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Near-hot just at mid-day Monday here in California’s Central Valley as temperatures generate more than just warmth as maybe the weather feels as if it could leap spring altogether, and crunch face-first into summer. Weather is always newsworthy. Especially taken as a respite from the sad goings-on in Ukraine, though, weather stories are more dismal…
Another warm day here in California’s Central Valley, any distinction between just ‘warm‘ and ‘hot‘ swiftly fading from our daily weather. Summer in these parts is grossly livable — we experience way-too-few weeks of the somewhat ‘cool‘ days of spring, then seemingly way-quickly months of furnace-like brightness, accelerating from April to May leading to the…
(Illustration: Graph per NASA/JPL-Caltech, and found here). Bright sunshine and warming temps this near-mid-day Sunday here in California’s Central Valley, another beauty seemingly ahead of its time. The state has been in a perpetual cycle of an aggravating ‘weather/climate whiplash,’ which creates early summer and won’t go away. This morning a climate-change post with a…
On top of all the other shit we got going, today/yesterday a big-ass volcano/earthquake: (Illustration found here). The event a peculiar one with a massive volcano eruption enabling a 5.8 earthquake, a double-bang situation that sent literal shock waves across the Pacific Ocean — via NPR late this afternoon: A massive underwater volcano that erupted…
As of late, my posts in the afternoon seem to have more climate change news than other horror shit, from over-heating oceans to super-hot months to super-hot years, and yesterday another sweltering weather report, this one from down Argentina-way (Gizmodo): Ground temperatures climbed above 129 degrees Fahrenheit (54 degrees Celsius) in parts of Argentina this…
Once again going beyond the horror of America’s one-sided democracy workshop, we are moved by another dire report on our collapsing environment and worsening life situation — one more heads-up to a code-red warning light for a five-alarm fire which already might be unextinguishable. A note on the subject: ‘About 71 percent of the Earth’s…
(‘Increasing Forest Fire Activity‘ (watercolor and colored pencil) by climate-change artist, Jill Pelto). Beyond the pressing business of political ugliness, our weather is still taking a climate-changing whiplash. Although today here in California’s Central Valley was again full-on sunshine and warm, the eastern US was a freezing, snowbound madhouse — the climate crisis is bad…
Foggy and damp this Saturday evening here in California’s Central Valley — weathering the weather has always been a part of life’s story, except nowadays there’s an endgame included and it’s shitty. And climate-changing that weather is a heavy gas: Not a happy milestone, in fact this is serious, heavy shit — literally — via…
Mainly overcast, though, some faded-yellow sunshine appears occasionally here this mid-day Monday in California’s Central Valley — not bad considering Joe Biden’s return to DC earlier this morning: Report via NY1: A snowstorm in Washington, D.C., early Monday morning disrupted federal government operations across the city and even all the way north to Delaware, where…
(Illustration: ‘Redhope‘, street art by Shepard Fairey, and found here). Just paying attention to what’s going on around you nowadays is a way-depressing and emotional bowel-suck of an endeavor, and if you’re a ‘news nut‘ (vs a ‘news addict,’ which is really just more druggie-like than the perceived institutional-grade crazy) doomscrolling through the activities of…
