Freak Show Redux
November 29, 2020A major freaky in a freaky year just got much-more freaky: Eleven days ago, the freaky object was discovered by the Utah Department of Public Safety Aero Bureau during a routine wildlife mission via helicopter…
Tag Archives: Environment
Town Name Change — Too Fucking Or Not To Be
November 26, 2020I saw this odd news item today: (Illustration found here). Only in 2020 — via the Guardian this afternoon: Residents of an Austrian village will ring in the new year under a new name –…
Getting ‘Presidential’ on Climate Change as the Arctic Continues to Warm
November 25, 2020Beyond politics and the virus: Climate change is earth’s biggest issue, and is more than just a problem for future generations.The shit is already here. The hottest warming-up spot is also one of the coldest…
Climate Change Intensifies Hurricanes — Study
November 15, 2020Sunshine this late-afrernoon Sunday here in California’s Central Valley — weatherwise for this time of year, about as good as it gets. Fog heavy again this morning, but it burned-off fairly rapidly, making it nice…
Oddities — Earthquakes and No-Show Asteroids
November 8, 2020Beyond any doubt, this year has been one for the record books. And just today, the continuing much-needed relief sense of sorts in knowing Joe Biden is the new president, and the horror-toad T-Rump is…
Michael Mann: ‘A second Trump term is game over for the climate — really!’
November 5, 2020As we continue to wait for the final election results, here’s a reminder of a backburner issue that’s bigger than the stove, and most-likely bigger than the kitchen: (Illustration found here). Near-about pushed aside is the…
Heat in Time — ‘A Kind of Vicious Circle’
July 2, 2020Hot but manageable this late-afternoon Thursday here in California’s Central Valley — temps have been high-90s this week, but by the weekend, supposedly back into the unbearable triple digits. Heat in the summer time… In…
‘Are These Times Contagious?’
June 30, 2020A black plague of news — Run: ‘Have I got a long way to run?‘ (Illustration: Pablo Picasso’s ‘Les Deux Saltimbanques: l’Arlequin et Sa Compagne,’ found here).
Quake!
June 24, 2020Earthquake just a few minutes ago, and according to the USGS, the shaker, located south of Lone Pine, California, registered a 5.8 on the Richter Scale. I was lying on my bed surfing the InterWebs…
Walking Leroy in the Valley — Episode 15 (abridged)
June 22, 2020Another blurb of Leroy and me on a hike along the Rascal Bike Path here in Merced, a city of a bit more than 80,000 about an hour north of Fresno on the 99, heatedly-blistering…