California Fire News Improving
Buried away in section B of the Chron, after weeks of front page headlines, was the news that the three …
Category Archives: Environment
Mercury in CFLs: What to Do?
As is becoming more commonly known, the CFLs (compact flourescent lamps) that are fast replacing the old incandescent lights have …
Big Sur: A Smoking Ruins
More photos of Big Sur. Everybody is on the way out. The blaze had swept within a half mile of …
China Algae Bloom
Quite aside from the Olympics, this cannot be good news about China’s environment. It might be good for C02 draw-down, …
Iceless North Pole
“It seems unthinkable, but for the first time in human history, ice is on course to disappear entirely from the …
Climate of Plagues
Perfect Storm of Perfect Plagues Doktorschnabel_430px.jpg Guess what else global climate change can do? Create a perfect epidemiological storm with …
More and More Fires in CA
Wildfires were scattered around Northern California on Sunday in the heart of wine country and in remote forests, the latest …
Speaking of Midwest Floods
“The monsoon splashed its way into the record books on Sunday, hitting Delhi a full two weeks before its”normal” date. …
More Fires in CA
Just when the big Santa Cruz mountain fire died down, another further north started up. When it was under control …
Weather Reports are Missing the Story
by Amy Goodman The floodwaters are rising, swamping cities, breaching levees. Tens of thousands are displaced. Many are dead. No, …
36,000 Homeless in Iowa
“About 36,000 Iowans in 11 counties are homeless, Gov. Chet Culver said Sunday. In Cedar Rapids, 25,000 people were forced …
Rainfall Anomolies
Here is the place I’ve been looking for, and where I should have concentrated my search in the first place, …