Tag Archives: Environment

Heat Dome Again — Climate Change Sucks Big Time

June 9, 2022

Summer explodes the environment: (Illustration: ‘Heat Dome’ across US Southwest and Pacific Coast this weekend, image found here). Overcast and though a bit warm, fairly comfortable outside here near noon Thursday in California’s Central Valley…

Measurements Indicate CO2 Levels Highest In Human History

June 4, 2022

(Illustration: Art by Matteo Farinella, written by Jeremy Deaton, and found here). Once again putting aside guns and war and nasty Republican asshole politics this early-evening Saturday here in California’s Central Valley, maybe focus for…

‘Bleak’ Climate-Change Study: Environment Going To Shit Maybe 60 Years Earlier Than Previously Projected

May 28, 2022

Faded-yellow sunshine peeks out occasionally between off-white clouds this late-afternoon Saturday here in California’s Central Valley — cool temperatures, too, in nice pre-summer kind of weather. In the horror of the news cycle lately, deep…

Climate-Change Research: To Survive, We Must ‘Completely Rethink Our Way Of Living’

May 18, 2022

Heavy-air hot this late-afternoon Wednesday here in California’s Central Valley — we’re on a schedule now to greater and greater temperatures with days starting to average at least 90-degrees in the shade. In the sun…

Climate Change Reality: ‘We Really Are In A Quite Different World’

May 17, 2022

Warming up outside now near mid-day Tuesday here in California’s Central Valley — we expect 90-degree air this afternoon, and maybe close to 100 tomorrow. Summer ahead doesn’t look too charming for us out on…

Climate Change: Another Warning ‘Our Weather Will Become More Extreme’ With Continued Addiction To Fossil Fuels — US Leads The Way To Disaster

May 11, 2022

Breezy and cool this near-mid-day Wednesday here in California’s Central Valley — weather just about out of sync with normal reality. Reportedly, we’ll see a 30-degree rise in temperatures by Saturday as the ‘whiplash,’ lopsided…

Another UN Climate-Change Warning — ‘A File Of Shame’

April 4, 2022

(Illustration: “Landscape of Change,” by Jill Pelto, and found here). As the world responds to the war-crime horrors of Vlad Putin’s monstrous invasion of Ukraine, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) today released…

Antarctic Heat/Ice Shelf Collapse: ‘Probably Is Something Like, You Know, The Last Straw On The Camel’s Back’

March 25, 2022

Noontime Friday here in California’s Central Valley. The weather’s ambiance is already warm touting, thus we’re looking at low-80s later this afternoon — heat the news. So be it — going beyond Ukraine, Putin and…