Tag Archives: climate change

UN Climate-Change Draft Report: ‘The Worse Is Yet To Come,’ And Sooner, Too

June 23, 2021

Briefly brushing aside politics for a moment, let’s take another peek at a fully-formed catastrophe that will soon be the headliner — climate change. Although today here in California’s Central Valley is really nice —…

Arrival Of ‘The Mega-Heat Wave’ — Part Deux: Seeing Laboratory-Research Models Come Alive, ‘Surreal’

June 18, 2021

As the fever-fiery, ‘mega-heat wave‘ continues here in California’s Central Valley and across a large chunk of the western US, the Friday news dump turned out in actuality to be sort an extension of my…

Climate Scientist On Tipping Point For Global Warming: Mankind May Have ‘Already Stepped On This Mine And Already Set Off The Beginning Of The Explosion’

June 16, 2021

Set aside for a minute the Joe/Vlad face-to-face on the shores of peaceful Lake Geneva, or even the nauseous, toxix Repubican party here in the US, seeking to erase democracy, or the outbreak of vicious…

Republicans Put Oil/Gas Before Climate Change — New Distraction ‘Shiny Object’ Is A Phony Care For The Environment

June 10, 2021

Beyond the anti-democratic horrors created by Republicans for this country’s immediate weeks and months, these ass-wipes are also endangering the not-so-distant future for the entire freaking planet — climate change is a most-way-real catastrophe and…

California Drought And Continuing Climate Change: Therefore — ‘A Lot Of The Slack In Our System Has Already Been Used Up’

June 7, 2021

(Illustration: US Drought Monitor, California, found here). Sunny but cooler than normal this Monday afternoon in California’s Central Valley, a seemingly off-day from the heat we’ve experienced the last week or so — yet the…

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

June 5, 2021

(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…

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

June 3, 2021

(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…

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

May 31, 2021

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…

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

May 27, 2021

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…