Saturday, January 20, 2024

Jargon of Possible Human Extinction at 3°C Above Year 1850 Baseline

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 A friend said something like, "Most people don't understand the jargon of 2 C, 3 C, 4 C, 5 C , IPCC , and COP ." Let me put i...
Monday, January 15, 2024

2023 Widely Noted as Hottest in About 125,000 Years

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A friend led boatbuilding crews overseas. He told me when someone said, "Don't worry" it only meant one thing: "Worry....
Wednesday, December 20, 2023

"Every day you get older. Now that's a law!" Butch Cassidy in film Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid (1969)

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Reflecting on ever-escalating climate emergency, I recall a 3-minute film scene in  Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid (1969) when Butch sa...
Thursday, December 14, 2023

"130 nations at Cop28 [called] for a fossil fuel phase-out" but Big Oil and Major Oil-Producing Nations Said No

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Yesterday, I wrote an angry response to COP28, then deleted before posting because it didn't help, or add anything. A day later now, pas...
Monday, November 13, 2023

A Good Time to Pray (post recycled from 1/9/18)

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This is the first time I recycled a post. I thought it odd this post was visted recently until I read it again. Today I saw James Temple...
Tuesday, November 7, 2023

Poem for COP28 in East Fork Eagle Creek, Columbia Gorge; James Hansen's "Global warming in the pipeline" (revised 23 May 2023) notes "Equilibrium global warming including slow feedbacks for today's human-made greenhouse gas (GHG) climate forcing (4.1 W/m2) is 10°C, reduced to 8°C by today's aerosols."; British Antarctic Survey researcher Dr. Kaitlin Naughten says "It looks like we’ve lost control of melting of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet." meaning, according to a related video, "slow addition of nearly 6 feet [1.8 meters] to sea levels" "in hundreds of years."

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Poem for COP28 in East Fork Eagle Creek, Columbia Gorge Below 172-foot Tunnel Falls a dead deer, maybe from crossing swift winter cu...
Sunday, October 29, 2023

Thinking About Antarctica

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One of my most-visted posts  August 4, 2023  quotes  Graham Readfearn at The Guardian , July 29, 2023 , and others, "[In Antarctica] an...
Thursday, October 19, 2023

Cain and Abel

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Other Christians and I were discussing what a climate sermon would be. At first, I suggested the story of Gideon which shows how a small gro...
Friday, October 6, 2023

Art for Global Political Leaders Before COP28

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Saturn Devouring His Son by  Francisco Goya   (1746–1828)  The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful re...
Monday, October 2, 2023

Climate Story

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I ran Climate Conversations for professors and students two years at one of the colleges where I taught. In one meeting I tried to make it s...
Monday, September 25, 2023

Two Questions Before COP28

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I was encouraged by former UN chief Christiana Figueres' comments reported by The Guardian 's Dharna Noor September 21, 2023, ...
Tuesday, September 19, 2023

Johan Rockström, IPCC, and World Leaders Bet Human Future on Fantasy-Scale Direct Air Capture, and Carbon Capture/Storage

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Video begins at 33:47. Unsaid in the above video is that world leaders would rather use risky, and possibly war-producing, unilateral geoeng...
Monday, August 21, 2023

Climate Disasters Are Here, and Worse Predicted to Come

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I was fishing in Canada, and took a lunch break in a lodge where I sat beside two men in heated conversation. I wrote about this in my  Sept...
Tuesday, August 15, 2023

Al Gore "Hot and Bothered" About Big Oil's "Carbon Capture and Storage" and "Direct Air Capture" Plans

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August 17, 2023 Update -- CBS News anchor Errol Barnett  interviewed Washington Post reporter Evan Halper about the multibillion dollar  ...
Wednesday, August 9, 2023

Amazon Rainforest, Global Coral Reefs, and Bukowski

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May 11, 2023, NASA scientist  Peter Kalmus wrote , "I was just at a NASA team meeting for 3 days in DC. The scientific findings are so ...
Friday, August 4, 2023

Climate Resilience Hubs, and Pulitzer Prize-finalist Abrahm Lustgarten Reports "present pathway [ . . . . ] could lead to 2 billion people falling outside of the climate niche within just the next eight years, and 3.7 billion doing so by 2090"

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Erin Stone reported July 31, 2023, at laist.com/news "How Resilience Hubs Can Help Communities Face The Heat And The Climate Emergency....