The risk chart the Bush administration didn't publicize, from the ever-imaginative Toles' online-only sketchbook:
Author Archives: Kit Stolz
Stink-Eye from a Deer
The Federal government took control of Yosemite Valley in 1890, the second chapter of The National Parks documentary reminds us, and prohibited all hunting. So it’s been twenty or more generations since a deer in Yosemite Valley has encountered a human with the intent to kill. They have less fear of us than we haveContinue reading “Stink-Eye from a Deer”
Overheard in Bakersfield (new edition)
According to the Internet, there already is an Overheard in Bakersfield site, but the only comment on the site is the subhhead — “It’s not THAT bad.” Well, I am here briefly today to report that in fact there is a lot of good dialogue to be overheard at the In-and-Out in Bakersfield. This isContinue reading “Overheard in Bakersfield (new edition)”
Battle of the Climate Headlines: Wa-Po vs. WSJ
From the Washington Post, yesterday: New Analysis Brings Dire Forecast Of 6.3-Degree Temperature Increase Climate researchers now predict the planet will warm by 6.3 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the century even if the world's leaders fulfill their most ambitious climate pledges, a much faster and broader scale of change than forecast just twoContinue reading “Battle of the Climate Headlines: Wa-Po vs. WSJ”
A Hymn to the Parks (behind the scenes with Ken Burns)
Those who like "behind the scenes" type looks will enjoy a profile of Ken Burns' friend and documentary co-writer, Dayton Duncan, available through The Pennsylvania Gazette. The research Duncan and Burns brought to the subject of the national parks impresses. Here's Duncan on John Muir's persuasive powers: “John Muir was an eloquent person, but theContinue reading “A Hymn to the Parks (behind the scenes with Ken Burns)”
A Greatness to the American Spirit: Forever Wild
From Terry Tempest Williams, these are the words that open a new documentary on the Wilderness Act, Forever Wild: If there is a greatness to the American spirit, a spirit aligned with freedom and faith, surely its origins are to be found in the expanse of landscapes that have nurtured us…. Raw, wild beauty isContinue reading “A Greatness to the American Spirit: Forever Wild”
Can’t They See the World’s on Fire?
We haven't even reached the real Santa Ana season yet, and yet the hellish feeling of being trapped in a SoCal with a conflagration at our backs is all too with us these days. Even if it's not true at this moment. So instead of posting about climate change again (oh gawd) I'm going toContinue reading “Can’t They See the World’s on Fire?”
SoCal Megadroughts and Megafires: Caused by Climate Change?
On an insufferably hot Santa Ana condition day in SoCal, it’s worth asking if the fire season we face this year is directly linked to the lack of rain we’ve experienced for the last three years, and, more broadly, from the “megadrought” identified by numerous researchers this century. Here’s what that long-term drought looks likeContinue reading “SoCal Megadroughts and Megafires: Caused by Climate Change?”
Australian Winter Turns Apocalyptic: Global Warming Blamed
Is my headline an exaggeration of reality? If you ask a denier site such as Watts Up With That, no doubt they would scoff, and say it's the usual natural variability. But deniers not only ignore the bad news about global warming obvious to most people on the ground, in places like Sydney and SoCal,Continue reading “Australian Winter Turns Apocalyptic: Global Warming Blamed”
El Nino or El Fizzle?
This year’s boy child is looking considerably less robust than advertised just three months ago. From a typically excellent story by Rob Krier in the San Diego Union Tribune: Anyone counting on El Niño to wipe out California’s drought this winter may be counting chickens long before they’ve hatched. Long-range forecasters are less and lessContinue reading “El Nino or El Fizzle?”
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