UN Chief António Guterres On COP26 Agreement — ‘We Are Still Knocking On The Door Of Climate Catastrophe’

As the world weathers the accelerating impacts of climate change, attendees to COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, finally reached an agreement, though, the entire affair could be another “blah, blah, blah” episode. Nutshell via The Washington Post this afternoon: Saturday’s agreement, however, does not achieve the most ambitious goal of the 2015 Paris accord — to…

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Climate Change Heat: Quickest Temperature Rise In 24,000 Years — The Clock Is Melting!

(Illustration by Arne Dedert/Picture, Alliance/Getty Images, and found here). Despite some decent news today at the COP26 gathering in Glasgow, Scotland, the end results of this UN conference on climate change is up in the polluted air with a draft agreement looking good now, but shitty later — from The Washington Post this afternoon: The…

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COP26 And Failure To Handle Climate Change — ‘Glasgow Has A Serious Credibility Gap’

(Illustration found here). Despite a shitload of all kinds of nefarious events gripping like a snapping turtle at the brain, climate change continues to look like a horror story coming alive, as I’d bemoaned before, we’re watching the end of the world on our laptops. COP26, now in its second week in Glasgow, Scotland, has…

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Climate Change: G20 A Wimpy Bust, Future Of Mankind Might Rest With COP26 — ‘A Daunting Task’

Overcast with an occasional splash of faded-yellow sunshine this late afternoon Sunday here in California’s Central Valley — scary-boo night coming, so all is not well. And in a split-screen effect today, just as the meeting of the G20 in Rome ended, the UN’s 26th Climate Change Conference opened in Glasgow, Scotland, and the weight…

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CO2 Surging Into The Atmosphere, Swamps Climate Change Goals — ‘We Are Way Off Track’

Partly cloudy with an occasional glimpse of sunshine here in California’s Central Valley — our version of the first big storm of the season was quick and short with hard rain ending this morning.  Although we didn’t seem to catch the blunt impact of the system, we did see some heavy wet stuff earlier, and…

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