Friday, April 22, 2022

Spaceship Earth

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Spaceship Earth --  for NASA Scientist Peter Kalmus It’s like we’re on Spaceship Earth and our top navigators warn we will soon collide ...
Monday, April 4, 2022

IPCC AR6 Part III (Translation: Global Leaders AWOL)

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Bill McKibben wrote it best in his Substack publication The Crucial Years ,  "At 5 a.m. this morning [April 4, 2022] we were supposed t...
Saturday, March 19, 2022

Plain Speaking About IPCC's Second Part of the Sixth Assessment Report, Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, Summary for Policy Makers (signed off by 195 member nations). Clarification by Dr. Charlie Gardner of University of Kent, and Clare Farrell of Extinction Rebellion UK

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Used with permission of Extinction Rebellion . March 20-22, 2022 Update -- Fiona Harvey at The Guardian reported "Heatwaves at both of...
Wednesday, March 16, 2022

Three Sockeye in the Columbia River, Oregon

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The first had no eyes. The second no tongue. The third fungus gills. “Salmon people have spoken,” said the fisherman to others who stared in...
Saturday, February 19, 2022

Dr Ye Tao talks with Clare Farrell | 23 November 2021 | Extinction Rebellion UK

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Used with permission of Extinction Rebellion . Dr. Ye Tao gives an excellent presentation weaving in social equity, and the need for nonprof...
Sunday, February 13, 2022

The Last Two Men on Earth

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  The Last Two Men on Earth -- parts of this poem appeared in my February 23, 2020 post "Climate Lifeboats of the Rich and Famous?...
Wednesday, February 9, 2022

#DemocracyNow "'Don't Look Up': David Sirota on His Oscar Nod for Writing Blockbuster Climate Crisis & Media Satire"

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  Regarding Don't Look Up 's tech billionaire Sir Peter Isherwell (Mark Rylance) attempting to profit from the death comet's rar...
Saturday, February 5, 2022

Living in the Time of Dying (Free Documentary by Michael Shaw featuring Professor of Sustainability, Jem Bendell; Dharma teacher and author, Catherine Ingram; Award winning journalist and author, Dahr Jamail and Native American Elder, author and teacher Stan Rushworth)

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See the link to the documentary at livinginthetimeofdying.com   I understood when posting that Jem Bendell's paper “Deep Adaptation: A M...

Buffering the Climate Emergency

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Koda defending his otter. Toula is our pug rescue. Toby is our 17-year old Jack Russell who jumps like a puppy. I followed Bill McKibben...
Thursday, January 13, 2022

Arctic and Antarctic News (Record 38 degrees Celsius or 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit in Arctic confirmed by World Meteorological Organization.)

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Used with permission of DW . January 17, 2022 Update: Three days ago Jeff Masters at Yale Climate Connections reported "Australia ties...
Saturday, November 13, 2021

COP26 Report from Tim Crosland, Extinction Rebellion spokesperson and Director of Plan B.Earth

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Used with permission of Extinction Rebellion . My deepest respect goes to Tim Crosland, Extinction Rebellion  spokesperson and Director of  ...
Thursday, November 4, 2021

Reframe, Redefine

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Those who closely follow the climate emergency know even if we had COP26 global cooperation, and sincere GHG (greenhouse gas) reduction comm...
Monday, November 1, 2021

After the First Day of COP26 (began Sunday, October 31)

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Used with permission of Extinction Rebellion . The gap between COP26 rhetoric and action reminds me of the end of Nirvana's song "S...
Tuesday, October 26, 2021

Rethinking Weather Forecasts

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Recently, a professor of statistics at my college said the probability of 115 F (46 C) in Seattle before June 2021 was zero, but it happened...
Wednesday, October 20, 2021

October 2021, Near a Washington State River

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October 2021, Near a Washington State River On my truck gate, pulling up waders, branches snap in morning dark as a cougar stalks me. When i...
Wednesday, October 6, 2021

I Found Some of my 2006 Clay Art in the Garage

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Donated to Washington State University, Vancouver Library Recent words of climate desperation are not encouraging. Jeff Goodell's excell...
Monday, September 13, 2021

Arctic Methane Release, and the Urgency of Now

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Blog readers may recall my February 7, 2019, post  "Arctic Methane Debate Rages On," and my October 28, 2017, post  "'If...
Wednesday, September 1, 2021

Will COP26 Be the "great unraveling or great turning?"

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JOANNA MACY: Climate Crisis As Spiritual Path from Old Dog Documentaries on Vimeo . (Used with per...
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Saturday, August 21, 2021

It's Time to Remove the Lower Four Snake River Dams to Save Salmon and Orca

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I agree with Don Sampson of Northwest Tribal Salmon Alliance, "We're in a salmon crisis. [ . . . . ] They're suffocating. They...
Thursday, August 12, 2021

Driving Through the Climate Apocalypse

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For many years people asked me for good climate news, and I expect this to increase with the haunting new sixth report of the Intergovernmen...
Wednesday, August 4, 2021

Gauguin and July 2021

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Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? 1897-1898 --Paul Gauguin, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons August 5, 2021 Updat...
Friday, July 23, 2021

Guest Post by Will Kautz

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This is a story of redemption.  I know that word can mean different things to different people but sometimes redemption shows itself in stra...

Climate Reality Pushback

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Used with permission of marine biologist Chris Harley . Kabir wrote, "people won't wake up -- Not until they feel death's club ...