A feature in Vogue focuses on thirteen “climate warriors” at the Paris climate conference (#COP21) from around the world. It’s beautiful — and the words of these women hit home. HINDOU OUMAROU IBRAHIM Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim is from the Sahel region of Chad, where devastating droughts and floods are now the norm. As cochair ofContinue reading “Climate warriors in Vogue: Hindou Oumaro Ibrahim”
Author Archives: Kit Stolz
Chris Christie “doesn’t buy” climate change
As David Roberts of Grist/Vox has been saying for literally years now, the GOP base is batshit crazy, and as a result, Republican candidates have to compete to out-crazy each other when it comes to climate. How low can they go? How uninformed, willfully ignorant, and flat-out irrational can they possibly be? It’s the mostContinue reading “Chris Christie “doesn’t buy” climate change”
A day in Paris for the climate
Where does one start with the news from Paris, from COP21? With the speech from the President? Images from the fantastically imaginative demonstrations from the day before, in defiance of police authority, of shoes left in protest in the Place de la Republique? Or with the fatalism of so many scientists, who agree that theContinue reading “A day in Paris for the climate”
The inevitability of warming: a matter of degrees
In Tales of a Warming Planet in today’s review section of the Sunday NYTimes, Curt Stager makes some central points about climate change well-known and accepted by climate scientists, but still new to most people: Let me cite just three, in byte-sized form: 1) Roughly one-eighth of the carbon in your flesh, hair and bonesContinue reading “The inevitability of warming: a matter of degrees”
Tips for Surviving Thanksgiving (aka “Compassion”)
Last Thanksgiving, the NYTimes published an unusually good op-ed on an unusually fraught subject: how to survive Thanksgiving with difficult relatives. Written by Henry Alford, it began something like this: Like you, I have often wondered, “How might a hostage negotiator help the average American family get through Thanksgiving?” I’ve had this thought not because ofContinue reading “Tips for Surviving Thanksgiving (aka “Compassion”)”
Be grateful, but stay away from the Permagrin
In the NYTimes, the estimable Arthur Brooks — the rare research-oriented conservative writer — makes a case for expressing gratitude this season, even if we do not feel it. This Thanksgiving, don’t express gratitude only when you feel it. Give thanks especially when you don’t feel it. Rebel against the emotional “authenticity” that holds youContinue reading “Be grateful, but stay away from the Permagrin”
Reporter brings science to politics of climate
Reporters can fall into ruts and become predictable and dull, like anyone else, so it’s worth noting when a veteran reporter tries a new trick. Such was the case this past week, as the Associated Press’s Seth Borenstein, a veteran reporter who continues to cover big daily stories, tried something original with the political candidates’Continue reading “Reporter brings science to politics of climate”
The hazardous truth: Santa Clara Waste Water
My old friends at the Ventura County Reporter ran my latest obsession/story, which I’ve been working on for the last six months or so, off and on, and did a nice job with the lay-out, may I say. Here’s the crux of the matter: What really happened when Santa Clara Waste Water (in Santa Paula area)Continue reading “The hazardous truth: Santa Clara Waste Water”
Scenes from an Explosion: the chemical fire totes
From a picture taken at Santa Clara Waste Water the day after the explosion, fire, and toxic plume:
Santa Clara Waste Water: 1 year after the explosion
Will publish a story on the Scenes from an Explosion story I have been recently slightly obsessed with soon, but for now:
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