Trees, Fish, and Dreams Climateblog

Trees and flowers' early blooms remind us of the Creative Force in the universe, and real self in each human, and how many people lost t...

Western Washington State in fall is alive with trees, fish, and dreams, worth protecting if one has time and energy.

Today Terry Slavin at reuters.com quoted Sandrine Dixson-Declève, co-president of The Club of Rome, "I fear that COPs are becoming lit...

The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum (c. 1821) by John Martin John Martin, Public domain , via Wikimedia Commons This poem satiricall...

COP27 gave new meaning to "Good cop, bad cop." To use a football metaphor, imagine a fullback dropping the ball 27 consecutive gam...

Charles Knowles from Meridian Idaho, USA, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons Thinking About Climate Catastrophe and Peter Iredale Shipwreck N...

Yesterday I read David Wallace-Wells' piece in The New York Times Magazine , "Beyond Catastrophe A New Climate Reality Is Coming I...

Since I mentioned Carl Sagan and the word "cosmos" in my two previous posts, I am including the image that went into outer space o...

Letter to Global Bankers Karma debt isn't like credit debt. You can't pay in U. S. dollars. You can't escape it by dying. Bankru...

Redefinition Blues    “They are our cousins. Perhaps, the ones who come to my--my heroes, are the macaques, who are also known as rhesus...

I had this dream: "HAL, solve climate change." "You know I can't do that, Dave. I was programmed by men, for men, and you...

I saw this car-crushed frog, and immediately thought of COP1 through COP26 . Will COP27 , in light of recent fires , floods , droughts , hea...

I'm grateful The Columbian published my " Letter: Prepare for climate refugees [in Vancouver, WA]" September 9, 2022.  The c...

What We Have: At Bonn Climate Conference June 2022 Leading up to COP27 November 2022 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt   Maybe we can agre...

Donated to Fort Vancouver Regional Library Foundation. My July clay art is about drought in a previous year, good for the next two ice ages...

The recent idea to divert Mississippi River water (over objections of people who live there) to the Colorado River System  reminds me of the...

Used with permission of DW. It seems no one told these water managers from California to Germany to Afghanistan about the importance of dist...

  I'm grateful Lower Columbia College in Longview, Washington accepted my Clay Salmon P oem in their art collection.  I recently donate...

Used with permission of DW. In the above YouTube, Professor Stefan Rahmstorf of Postsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research explains jet ...

After the Bureaucratic Meeting dried salmon, raw apple, hand-picked blackberries, a few honest words circling wood fire followed by silent g...

On a recent business trip to San Francisco, of course I wrote a climate poem: San Francisco Climate Clues, June 21, 2022 In Hotel Caza paint...

Industrial Oz is a drug to keep us away from ourselves. On a three-day solo fasting in the North Cascades illusions vanish, and three option...

Used with permission of Multimedia Journalist & Filmmaker  Kim Paul Nguyen The above VICE News video with 750,175 views as of June 8, 20...

10-month-old American Shepherd understands importance of play, close observation, pushing limits of boundaries, value of half-chewed stuffed...

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

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...

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

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...