War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
(Illustration found here). Writer and activist Bill McKibben in an interview at Outside magazine, published Monday, ‘Earth Day,’ and a bit of historical-reality with our predicament: “The oil companies knew everything there was to know about climate change. Look, these were the richest companies in the world. They had vast squadrons of scientists. Their product…
(Illustration found here). Sundown Wednesday here on California’s north coast, clear, dying-gray skies, touched along the westward edges with a little bright tinge, a sense of approaching dark. Chilly, though, as it’s been since about noon-time today when the icy-north wind arrived — earlier was easy warm, was hoping it would stay that way, but…
(Illustration found here). Rainy and chilly this Sunday evening on California’s north coast — the environment of dreary. Our only home is self-destructing — our only outside is changing rapidly from livable to unlivable. Via today’s Time: President Donald Trump mocked climate change again on Sunday, just days after the Department of Defense released a…
(Illustration found here). As far as our environment goes, it’s getting way-close to the now-or-we’re-fucked point — the Guardian yesterday: The study found that if all fossil fuel infrastructure — power plants, factories, vehicles, ships and planes — from now on are replaced by zero-carbon alternatives at the end of their useful lives, there is a…
(Illustration by Handoko Tjung, found here). Sunshine though faded is fully-welcomed mid-afternoon Thursday here on California’s north coast, first real shine in awhile. Rain expected for tomorrow, maybe some sun on Saturday, but mostly just rain-like, cloudy overcast, probably some drizzle/showers thrown into the works. Fairly predictable weather, so far… Warnings! Warnings! Today’s New York…
(Illustration found here) Beyond the T-Rump being a personal, nasty-piece-of-shit, he’s also a wide-ranging, worldwide, pathological villain — via the Guardian late this afternoon: A new analysis shows US greenhouse gas levels are increasing as the Trump administration unravels efforts to slow climate change. Carbon emissions rose sharply last year, increasing 3.4-percent, according to new estimates…
(Illustration: Salvador Dali’s ‘Hell Canto 2: Giants,’ found here). Another brick in the wall of climate change, probably, and way-most-likely the biggest, nastiest danger facing all of us right now — despite the horror of the T-Rump. Yet again, more bad news via the Guardian this afternoon: Global warming has heated the oceans by the equivalent of…
(Illustration found here). As our environmental situation shifts, the phrase, ‘climate change,’ and even ‘global warming,’ don’t express the reality — from Commondreams yesterday: “I’ve worked on this for 30 years and I’ve never been as worried as I am today,” Schellnhuber declared during the COP24 climate summit in Poland, arguing that even the language commonly…
(Illustration found here). Climate change issues can’t be shouted enough — another nasty view of our rapidly changing world: New studies and reports issued this week at a major Earth sciences conference paint one of the bleakest pictures yet of dramatic warming in the Arctic and Antarctica. Alaskan scientists described to The Associated Press Tuesday never-before-seen…
(Illustration: Artwork from the UN’s International Children’s Painting Competition, found here). Raindrops and gray — a wet-touch with color for this early-evening Sunday here on California’s north coast, the air all day clipped by some way-brisk wind — reportedly, should be sunny tomorrow, at least that’s what WunderBlog forecasts. More rain supposedly on Tuesday, followed by…
