Trees, Fish, and Dreams Climateblog

I'm grateful my new book of climate poems  Bridge at the End of the World   won a 2023 Blue Light Book Award. An ecopoem celebrates the ...

The 1939 "Voyage of the Damned" is timely due to past, current, and future responses to climate migrants. Amy Tikkanen's Marc...

I agree with those who say it's wrong to just document climate disasters without offering real solutions. I offered one March 31, 2019 i...

Extrapolations — Official Trailer | Apple TV+ In the above trailer Edward Norton's character Jonathan Chopin says "I think it helps...

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 ...