Trees, Fish, and Dreams Climateblog

I appreciated Rolling Stone contributing editor Jeff Goodell's recent article from which the quote above was taken.  The article "...

These are the Four Horsemen of Distraction: Stakeholders, Funding Sources, Constituencies, Agendas. Here is what Peace Pil...

One of my longtime friends (47 years) sent me a Happer video disputing the ability of climate models "TO PREDICT THE FUTURE [overall] T...

In case you missed it, here is what President Trump said Jan. 28, 2018, in an interview with Piers Morgan: “There is a cooling and there...

Today I read the excellent essay  "Rivers and Stories" by Robert Hass. It was in my morning email from the global oneness proje...

I hate it when Suz outfishes me.  Just joking.

For balance, I enjoy time with my wife, dog, rivers, world literature classes, and creative writing classes . Meditation, prayer, yoga, ...

[2017 was] "The Year Climate Change Began to Spin Out of Control" ( MIT Technology Review ) ArtCenter SOUTH FLORIDA is offering...

moved over the waters, once rainbowed coral reefs bleached white as deer antlers , melting poles, and said to the man and woman,"You ar...

In the King James Bible, Revelation 11:18 says "and [God] shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth." Is that us?  Our family...

Before After Divest Now!

Turtles in Portland, Oregon's  Legacy Emanuel Children's Garden  by unknown artist. I'm back in Portland, Oregon, for the ho...

Tonight the Thompson Fire, the third largest in California history [ Dec. 22 Update -- now largest in California history]  according to Re...

(from 2015) (from tonight's NYT article "California Fires Enter the Heart of Los Angeles")

"Climate change: Top 10 things you should know" in Nov. 15, 2017, IRISH TIMES It's not just an Oregon poet making these poin...

nonviolently, with a focus on sustainability. Each new car must post "Square Feet of Arctic Ice Cost Per Year." The same go...

Wading an Oregon coastal river, I saw a property sign "Beware of Grandma." I couldn't stop smiling.

Earth Rent , written by my Honors Climate Change Poetry students, is in  San Diego Mesa College Library .  The class will be offered ag...

St. Sebastian Andrea Mantegna, 1490 Panel, 210 × 91 cm Ca' d'Oro, Venice “ The artist's intentions for the work are e...

Someone left this monstrosity in one of my favorite salmon holes.  A sabertooth salmon ? The article notes, "Imagine a six to seven-...

The vast majority of global scientists agree climate breakdown is caused by overuse of fossil fuels which must be quickly reduced to restore...

Thank you to the 138 visitors from South Korea October 14.

Image graphic: Created by David McCarthy ( Hawk on Wire book cover and promo video screen capture). Thanks to Yale Climate Connections...

Last night in class someone asked if climate change caused recent hurricanes. Scientists agree the answer is no.  Instead, scientists note, ...

The Guardian has some of the best coverage of Hurricane Irma updates .  The video on top of their page shows damage in the Caribbean island...

It looks like the planet has had enough of us, or maybe most of us.  Those crying climate scientists are starting to make sense.  As one no...

Some readers may want to know how to help those most affected by Hurricane Harvey.  There are many good organizations.  My choice is the Hou...

Venus II or  Eden II ?  "What can we do about climate change?" someone asked me again yesterday. Start here . The Atlantic post...

An Empty Garlic You miss the garden, because you want a small fig from a random tree. You don't meet the beautiful woman. You're...

This is part of my May 2 book launch reading sponsored by La Jolla Historical Society's project WEATHER ON STEROIDS: THE ART OF CLIMAT...

This book was a  July 2017 "Editor's Pick"  (along with  The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury)  at Newpages.com,  and w...

Tadpoles Car top egg cure. My first three nights back in Oregon I sat on a river rock under the stars all night to clear my he...

Used with permission of Bizarro.com . Future historians, if there are any, will trace the beginning of the end to Citizens United , a sla...

Broken Ritual One year salmon didn’t return to the river and men said maybe they got lost even though in millennia it had never hap...

How it Goes My wife complains our raft is leaking and she has ice water up her butt. “Small price to hook a steelhead,” I say. ...

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