From an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times: [Robinson] Jeffers celebrated the "transhuman magnificence" of nature, the beautiful things both vast and near that can provide even a 21st century reader with solace, even if we are often a muddled, ugly species and even if all things, as they do, fade away. Don't often hearContinue reading “The beautiful secret: Robinson Jeffers”
Author Archives: Kit Stolz
Will Romney live up to his own father’s standards?
Though attacked for asking a personal, sexual question of Newt Gingrich at the beginning of the South Carolina debate, CNN anchor John King came back later in the debate with an even tougher question for Newt's rival Mitt Romney. He laid it out beautifully, and listened as Romney flailed to answer. As Romney failed to liveContinue reading “Will Romney live up to his own father’s standards?”
Epic win for greens on Keystone XL: Dave Roberts
The Grist editor writes: For a year now, courageous activists, Midwestern farmers, unions, and indigenous groups have rallied in an unprecedented display of public opposition to the destructive Keystone XL pipeline proposal. That grassroots movement pushed us to the brink of victory — and today, it seems, the GOP has pushed us over the line.Continue reading “Epic win for greens on Keystone XL: Dave Roberts”
Romney 11/22/05: For and against climate pact on same day
The Internet is an astonishing thing: this evening the the entirety of the book of research into Mitt Romney's record, as compiled by the staff for his bitter GOP rival John McCain's staff in 2008, hit the intertubes. The 200-page document included this gem of a flip-flop on climate change, as reported in the Boston Globe:Continue reading “Romney 11/22/05: For and against climate pact on same day”
Ever wonder what the hummingbird feels by the flower?
The Beauty of Pollination will give you an idea…. By Louie Schwartzberg, via the Smithsonian.
Thinking about climate change: Tom Toles
For the beginning of the new year, Toles had this to offer: Note the tense he employs — the past.
A persistent La Niña leads to a long stretch of dryness
This year national weather and climate forecasters said they saw a La Niña condition developing in the Pacific, and promised dryness, as they did last year. This year, for virtually all of California, and much of the nation as well, they've been right. Here's the drought forecast, in a graphic from NOAA [National Oceanographic and AtmosphericContinue reading “A persistent La Niña leads to a long stretch of dryness”
Winter sunset: Yosemite high country 2012
From YosemiteRanger:
Multi, Extremely, and Totally Drug-Resistant TB: TDR-TB
Sometimes change is easier to hear in language than it is to contextualize in reality. My meager understanding of tuberculosis cannot be expected to grade the seriousness of the news that several new strains of the disease have been found in populations in India and Iran. This sounds alarming, but after all, medical researchers haveContinue reading “Multi, Extremely, and Totally Drug-Resistant TB: TDR-TB”
The pen is mightier than the Mitt Romney
As the inevitability of dreary Mitt Romney's candidacy for President for the GOP becomes inescapable, one has to wonder — will today's character artists be able to make fun of him? Will he be a target-rich opportunity, as exemplified by the likes of Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton, or will he just be bland, likeContinue reading “The pen is mightier than the Mitt Romney”
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