Climate change “largely irreversible for 1000 years”
NOAA stunner: Climate change “largely irreversible for 1000 years,” with permanent Dust Bowls in Southwest and around the globe Important …
Monthly Archives: January 2009
The Wrestler
There is probably no more appropriate theater in San Francisco to see The Wrestler, a film about a decrepit, down …
A Haiku in Winter
A Haiku in Winter The iced, white fog rising from the green of winter in Marin. The vulture peers, a …
Migrate or Die
It’s beginning to look like the surge in brown pelican deaths [400 + in a month] might be due to …
Winter
Leaning back against the tree, branches and leaves are few: Ah! A night of stars! Shiki
Dogs Protect Penguins
In what is believed to be a world first, a Maremma Guardian dog has been successfully used to protect Little …
Coho Salmon Disappear
“The lack of rain this winter has contributed to what fisheries biologists say is, so far, the worst return of …
U.S. Bringing Up the Rear in Race to Green
“Silicon Valley venture capitalist John Doerr, whose early investments helped launch Google and Amazon, delivered a stark warning to Congress …
The Short Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
I’ve never been a big fan of the American fiction of the suffering middle and upper classes, the lost academics, …
Abrupt Climate Change: A Report
The U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP), headed by the USGS (U.S. Geologic Service) has just released it latest Synthesis …
Urban Heat Island Mitigation
From Climate Progress (always worth looking at) comes another idea for the Obama green global stimulus program. Part 1: What …
2 Trillion Tons of Ice — Gone
“New satellite data presented by NASA scientists shows the loss of an estimated 2 trillion tons of ice from Greenland, …