U.S. Called “A Preening Pig”
Climate change advances inexorably, like the momentum of the huge glaciers it is destroying. Meanwhile the human race is tap-dancing …
Category Archives: Environment
North Carolina Drowning: 2nd 500 Year Rain in 11 Years
As predicted, the whole east coast is soaking in rain. North Carolina is expecting to see the Ark at any …
Another Day Another Record
113º! California’s blistering fall heat wave sent temperatures to an all-time record high of 113 degrees Monday in downtown Los …
Generation Hot
Mark Hertzgaard has a new book out. It won’t make you happy. Of course you should already be unhappy. People …
Drought in the Amazon
* * * Manaus, capital of the state of Amazonas, and the entire eastern region of the state are suffering …
More Rain Records
From Wunderground… Tropical Storm Matthew continues to dump heavy rains over Honduras, Belize, Guatemala, and neighboring regions of Mexico today. …
Record Sea Temperatures in Japan: Fish Flee
From the indispensable EarthWeek Sea temperatures around Japan during August reached the warmest levels ever recorded since reliable measurements began …
Drought Conditions Upset Fall Migration
Interesting (worrisome?) note in Tom Stienstra’s Sunday outdoors column in the SF Chronicle.(Not Available online until Tuesday) Unusual migration A …
3 Million Year Old Whale Surfaces
Very cool. “Workmen constructing a storm water equalization tank this week at the San Diego Zoo dug up a surprising …
Russian Drought / Pakistan Floods / Atlantic Hurricanes
As the old song goes, the foot-bone is connected to the ankle-bone, the ankle-bone is connected to the shin-bone, the …
Don’t Fly Ryan Air
With a man this ignorant [Michael O’Leary] heading up an airline I wouldn’t feel safe in his aircraft. In an …
Chemicals + Runoff + Warming = Toxic Algae = Toxic Shellfish = Otter Deaths
While we’re waiting for the huge catastrophe that will finally focus the attention of two-thirds of the world’s population on …