This week our nation's most influential newspaper ran a thoughtful, tough-minded op-ed on what to do about climate change that broke a lot of new ground…and seems to been overlooked. I haven't linked previously, because I'm still mulling its ideas. But the time has come to recommend it to my readers. It's called Disaster atContinue reading “Plan Z: preparing for the mega-catastrophe”
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Against flying: Joel Achenbach
Another edition in my wildly popular series. Not really! It's just that Wa-Po columnist Joel Achenbach is so funny, when he rants against a rantable subject, he must be linked. Here goes: Air Schlep To save the company a couple hundred bucks I eschewed the slightly expensive Southwest flight to Houston and instead bought aContinue reading “Against flying: Joel Achenbach”
The darkness of our time
Last year at the Ojai Foundation, Joanna Macy in a talk explored an idea that at a glance seems so simple — obvi, if you will — but which has nonetheless refused to leave my mind. The darkness of our time squeezes us into an awareness of our love for the world. It's tempting toContinue reading “The darkness of our time”
Obvi: a new word for the 21st century
That's according to Gary Shteyngart, author of the brilliant/disturbing Super Sad True Love Story…and according, today, to Doonesbury, ever on the cutting edge of American culture: Obvi: a word whose form embodies its meaning. It's so obvious, you don't need the whole word.
A global warming skeptic walks outside…
…and meets reality. Courtesy of Lee Judge, of the Kansas City Star.
Newspapers catch up to climate science
Or at least, The New York Times does… Is Weather Chaos Linked to Global Warming? Probably. "The summer’s heat waves baked the eastern United States, parts of Africa and eastern Asia, and above all Russia, which lost millions of acres of wheatand thousands of lives in a drought worse than any other in the historical record.Continue reading “Newspapers catch up to climate science”
USS Climate Change Denial hits a rough patch
From the inimitable Mr. Toles….
Horrific Flooding in Asia — as predicted by the IPCC
One-fifth of Pakistan is now underwater, the headlines say. Thousands have died, and this is expected to go down as one of "the worst natural disasters in history." But how "natural" is this disaster, really? Just an hour ago the Associated Press posted the first news story to look at the flooding in Asia, theContinue reading “Horrific Flooding in Asia — as predicted by the IPCC”
Greenland ice sheet doomed: Richard Alley
While I was on vacation last week, nothing much seemed to happen. Oh, massive flooding in Pakistan, heat waves in Russian, but beyond disasters in foreign countries, no one I talked to recalled anything. Today I come across a report in The Guardian that Richard Alley, perhaps this nation's premier expert in ice sheet formationContinue reading “Greenland ice sheet doomed: Richard Alley”
Denier claims Russian heat wave “random numbers”
According to the Russian Meterological Center, the heat wave and forest fires afflicting that nation are the worst seen in at least a thousand years. Russia has recently seen the longest unprecedented heat wave for at least one thousand years, the head of the Russian Meteorological Center said on Monday…. “We have an ‘archive’ ofContinue reading “Denier claims Russian heat wave “random numbers””
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