Three Tormenting Tweets
September 17, 2021Newsflashes slow this mid-day Friday; maybe more substantial shit will fall this afternoon with a news dump flurry to beat the weekend and the normal deadness of media noise. Here, to fill the gap is…
Tag Archives: Environment
Warning From New Climate Analysis: US Emissions Cut Deemed ‘Insufficient’ To Keep Down Worse Aspects Of Global Warming (World Failing)
September 15, 2021On this day after here in California, it’s back off the recall and to the business of wildfires, which are made worse by climate change, which seems to be in the early stages of being…
Terrible Times’ Most-Terrible Tweets
September 7, 2021Warm and near-about comfortable this mid-day Tuesday here in California’s Central Valley — first day of the ‘fall season,’ a time zone which usually lasts until about Halloween, then the holiday season kicks in, amping…
Time Is Of The Essence — Climate Change Warning (Again!)
September 6, 2021Another major red-flag warning on the here-and-now-but-worse-in-the-immediate-future thingie of climate change — a call from professionals/scientists to turn the boat — yesterday a big editorial: Nutshell via HuffPost this morning: A coalition of more than…
Ipsos Poll: Health Care, The Economy — Biggest Problems Facing America
September 4, 2021As America stews through a slew of potboiler issues, according to what citizens feel, we’re up shit creek without a paddle. In the latest Ipsos poll out today, just a quarter of respondents think the…
Saturday Musical Introspective: Songs From Long-Ago Memory
September 4, 2021In a non-contextual free-form this Saturday morning, and amongst savage news stories, I’m slipping back some 47 years, back to 1974 — I graduated from the University of Florida that June and spent the summer…
Wild Fires To Wild Flooding — Climate Change In Real Time
September 2, 2021Slightly warm at a cool 88-degrees this late-afternoon Thursday here in California’s Central Valley, and we’re still clear of smoke from our rampant wildfire war being waged up and down the state. Although there are…
It’s Official — US Out Of Afghanistan, And Other Stories
August 30, 2021Another boilermaker day — 109-degrees outside right now (late-afternoon Monday in California’s Central Valley) — as we spin through work-week kick-off with shit hitting the fan everywhere. Probably the most-historic event today was an end…
Hurricane Ida So Strong It Briefly Changed The Direction Of The Mississippi River — A Preview Of Storms To Come
August 29, 2021Another heavy-air scorcher this late-afternoon Sunday here in California’s Central Valley, though, skies today were a little less rusty-brown with the onset of some decent winds which kept the sunshine fairly-bright and a sharper yellow.…
Hurricane Ida Heading For New Orleans — Bad-ass Hurricanes ‘I’ Named
August 28, 2021Hot, heavy air this late-afternoon Saturday here in California’s Central Valley as the temperatures spiral upward — it’s 104-degrees with the view still a rusty-brown submerged in way-faded-yellow sunshine. Any length of time outside is…