Oil the irony
June 1, 2013Up here on California’s north coast this Saturday morning, outside looks deep-overcast, gloomy and gothic — a book by its cover? What you see might not be what it is, yet, at the same time,…
Up here on California’s north coast this Saturday morning, outside looks deep-overcast, gloomy and gothic — a book by its cover? What you see might not be what it is, yet, at the same time,…
Rain again this early Wednesday on California’s north coast, feels like it’s getting wet all over the world. Especially among the fringe-first, not-so-subtle Republican party, or as GOP underlings say: “I mean, you’ve got to…
(Illustration found here.) Via Climate Progress: Elizabeth Kolbert is one of the most thoughtful climate journalists. Her terrific 2006 book, ‘Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change,’ famously ends: “It may seem…
Overcast and a bit on the chilly side this way-early Friday on California’s north coast — the last couple of days could have been pulled from somewhere in January. Odd weather up here as we…
Clear and warm this early Thursday on California’s northern coast, with the near-full moon hanging like a white doorknob out over the Pacific Ocean. As we approach the weekend, the speed of life tends to…
A bit of ground fog and high overcast this early Tuesday on California’s north coast — and quiet, too. Weather, though, ain’t the same everywhere. Yesterday in Oklahoma: The preliminary rating of the tornado that…
Not a note of happiness or ease-of-mind: A shallow magnitude 4.4 earthquake was reported Saturday morning 17 miles from Rio Dell, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 6:46 a.m. PDT at…
Patchy cloud cover this early Wednesday allows a few twinkling stars to peek through and later maybe the sun will arise like thunder — up here on California’s north coast, however, the shine will most-likely…
Sunday morning up here on California’s northern coast and the living is cool. And the hunt for triple-homicide suspect Shane Miller continues just south of where I’m at — he’s charged with killing his wife and…
I mentioned this last week and its approach (via National Geographic): An instrument near the summit of Mauna Loa in Hawaii has recorded a long-awaited climate milestone: the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere…