Gas and Other Forms of Indigestion
June 20, 2011On Friday, I put another $20 worth of fuel in the old Jeep and the pump price was the same as the last time — $4.19 a gallon for regular. Whop-pee! Isn’t that something? The…
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Climate Endgame — Beyond the ‘Tipping Point’
May 31, 2011Here in the wee hours of the last day of May 2011, the world keeps spinning, the rain keeps coming down (along the northern California coast) and bad shit keeps filling CBS’ early-morning-looped-news program, ‘Up…
Tsunami Weather
May 25, 2011Air and earth has quickly become a deadly pain in the ass. Images from TV the last few days, and the last couple of months to be more precise, has reached a seemingly movie-as-real-life scenario…
Stick It — Bad Weather Ain’t Goin’ Away
May 17, 2011The conscious vs the unconscious: WASHINGTON—According to a report released this week by the Center for Global Development, climate change, the popular mid-2000s issue that raised awareness of the fact that the earth’s continuous rise…
Doctor, Doctor — Health and Climate Change
April 5, 2011Climate change has already worm-holed its way into the tattered fabric of everyday life. The American Medical Association and its editorial from yesterday (Monday): If physicians want evidence of climate change, they may well find…
‘Berg Business
March 5, 2011Due maybe to the horrendous fact there’s so much weird, threatening news happening near-constantly, every day, day-in-day-out, a small blip on the event radar from last August couldn’t even register on the memory scale. On…
Bottom Up
February 21, 2011(Illustration found here). The abstract from a new study via Tellus: The thaw and release of carbon currently frozen in permafrost will increase atmospheric CO2 concentrations and amplify surface warming to initiate a positive permafrost…
Obvious — Yet, Maybe Not
December 19, 2010Watching daylight turn into rain, there comes a feeling that what is perceived as reality is just noise to a lot of people, creating a blip in the mojo, a trip in the ether, and…
Cancún Canard
November 28, 2010Hope is a dim bulb for “CopenCun” — so nicknamed the UN climate summit which begins Monday in Cancún, Mexico — in that maybe some of the agreements wished-for during last year’s Copenhagen confluence disaster…
Ugly Tomorrow
November 23, 2010(Illustration found here). Another dire study on the state of nowadays. Although climate change, peak oil and all the assorted ugliness associated with both have been flashed around the news wire for months, if not…