Extreme heat is the prediction for the weather in the Ojai Valley this July 4th and for the next few days, according to the National Weather Service. Cooling is expected on the weekend, but not before. On Friday… the forecast calls for a few degrees of cooling in mostareas… but it will still be hot…Continue reading “How To Avoid Becoming a Victim of Global Warming”
Author Archives: Kit Stolz
The Denier Answer to Drought: Prayer
That’s the answer for Australia and the Southeast, apparently. Enviros might point out that Australia has long considered to be especially susceptible to drought as the globe heats up, but that would be bad form. Forget the fact that the drought there is now the worst it has been in a 1,000 years. Drought isContinue reading “The Denier Answer to Drought: Prayer”
Culture of Corruption Becomes Official
It’s okay to lie for the White House: the Prez says so. My favorite comment to date comes from "crunchy conservative" Rod Dreher. His remarkably bitter post, titled "The Soft on Crime Republicans," is worth reading in whole, but here’s the bottom line: Think about it: Paris Hilton did more time in the slammer thanContinue reading “Culture of Corruption Becomes Official”
Fire Over: Arguing Begins
The Lake Tahoe fires have died down, but the discussion has just begun. In The Los Angeles Times, the focus has been on the forest and the population issues. Moderate political columnist George Skelton drew this lesson: There’s no economy in numbers because of an exploding population — no growth discount for taxpayers funding theContinue reading “Fire Over: Arguing Begins”
Dick Cheney: He’s Not Exactly John Muir
The incandescent Joel Achenbach sums up the final installment of the potent-but-depressing Washington Post series on "the Dark Lord" of D.C., Dick Cheney: That Dick Cheney: He’s not exactly John Muir. Not exactly Henry David Thoreau. The final installment of the Gellman/Becker series shows us a man who loves the smell of rotting salmon inContinue reading “Dick Cheney: He’s Not Exactly John Muir”
Sunday Morning on the Planet: Artists
They’re cooler than you or me. Here’s what a couple of them free-thinkers did with a house in Houston, dubbed Inversion.
Opps (Housekeeping note)
Opps. Just came across eight comments that were not published because (I just found out) I am now supposed to approve every comment first. Apparently this is a change of policy, or perhaps this goes with allowing people to publish links, a change I made recently. My apologies to all of you who took theContinue reading “Opps (Housekeeping note)”
Lake Tahoe Fires and James Hansen
James Hansen is everywhere. Kind of like Cassandra. Speaking of the West and fire, Hansen and forty-six co-authors warn in a paper last month for Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics: An expansion and intensification of subtropical dry conditions occurs consistently with global warming in our climate simulations (Hansen et al., 2005a, 2007a). Held and Soden (2006)Continue reading “Lake Tahoe Fires and James Hansen”
Arnold vs. the EPA
A nice editorial cartoon by Steve Greenberg of the Ventura County Star. Posted here with permission. Who would ever have thought that Arnold, the man who (more than any other individual) helped popularize the Hummer, is also the man who most directly confronted the Bush administration on global warming? After 9/11, respected writers said theContinue reading “Arnold vs. the EPA”
Robert Heinlein on Logic
Crushed under work today, but here’s a quote that deserves remembering, from an obscure but often charming book by Robert Heinlein called Glory Road: Logic is a way of saying that anything that didn’t happen yesterday won’t happen tomorrow. Could this be part of the reason that self-styled conservatives have so much trouble with theContinue reading “Robert Heinlein on Logic”
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