War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
A chilling life beyond politics is the weather, which is searingly bitter-cold right now across the US, and historical (CNN this afternoon): Already, about 2,000 records for low temperatures have been shattered this past week, CNN meteorologist Dave Hennen said. On Tuesday alone, at least 20 cities suffered their coldest weather in history. Many more…
Just short of the Thursday noon hour here in California’s Central Valley with temperatures near 100-degrees already as we get set for another hot/hottest afternoon ahead. Not much breeze, either, which makes the heat feel even warmer despite being way-warm anyway. Notwithstanding the serial clusterfucks now swirling around us, the old stand-by/background-noise/cataclysm of climate change…
A major environmental report largely ignored — methane is an air bitch: from ScienceAlert yesterday on a new study published in Nature: Methane is an ‘invisible climate menace’ — roughly 30 times more potent as a heat-trapper than carbon dioxide — and while some of this atmospheric gas is produced naturally, new research indicates humans are…
Sunshine and a bit warm this late-afternoon of the second day of 2020 here in California’s San Joaquin Valley, a brightness after some pretty-thick morning low-clouds/fog which chilled the shit out of everything. Weather in the age of climate change. And far to the west, Australia is frying and burning from a climate ripped by…
Windy, sunshine-filled late afternoon Tuesday here on California’s North Coast — good weather off good climate. Speaking of which, this exchange during a Humboldt County Board of Supervisors meeting last February on a just-released North Coast climate assessment: Third District Supervisor Mike Wilson suggested that Humboldt County could be where “climate refugees” seek refuge. “We…
Sunny and nice this Thursday evening here in California’s north coast — summer’s near-about two-thirds gone. A bit under-the-weather the past few days with a head cold of sorts, a condition which probably started late last week, but came to fruition over the weekend and made my life decently-miserable since Monday. I feel much better…
Off this frightening news: MIT geophysics professor Daniel Rothman released new data on Monday showing that carbon levels today could be fast approaching a tipping point threshold that could trigger extreme ocean acidification similar to the kind that contributed to the Permian–Triassic mass extinction that occurred about 250 million years ago. … But the most significant…
Sunshine and hot this early-evening Tuesday here on California’s north coast, balmy it be — the NWS reports 82-degrees right now in Arcata, and will supposedly stay way-warm until dark. Although not really what you’d call ‘hot,’ but for us coast people, it’s ‘sweltering.’ Yesterday from the Northern California Weather Blog: A high pressure ridge…
According to sensors at Hawaii’s Mauna Loa Observatory, a research outpost of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency, our earthly habitat is in the real shits, not like since forever: Background via TechCrunch this afternoon: If the threshold seems unremarkable (it shouldn’t), it’s yet another indication of the unprecedented territory humanity is now charting as…
(Illustration found here). Sunny and windy this early-evening Thursday on California’s north coast — way-windy on the beach this afternoon, which can spoil the flavor of the moment. Really bright, though, which is nice… In the monkey-go-around of the nauseating T-Rump freak-show in DC, we have a near-perfect distraction from the main, most-single issue of…
