Trump in a race to destroy the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge before 2020...
The Interior Department has been working furiously to issue drilling permits so that oil companies can begin drilling and constructing the infrastructure that enables production in Alaska’s Arctic...
View ArticleTrump's shutdown enabled vandals to take a chainsaw to the Joshua trees in...
Due to the government shut down, the namesake trees at Joshua Tree National Park near Palm Springs, CA, have fallen to vandals wielding chainsaws. Just for fun, I can only guess. x"A travesty to this...
View ArticleTrump has sat on billions of dollars meant for extreme storm mitigation in...
“Are you ready for President Kamala Harris declaring a national emergency over climate change?” Senator Marco Rubio, Big Sugar, FL.Marco, yes! Yes, I am.To be clear right off the bat, I suspect that...
View ArticleInsect collapse in the Tropics points to climate change as the only factor...
I keep vigil.Changes in temperature and weather patterns from a warming planet pose threats to millions of species (including humans) found in the tropics - that is because tropical species are...
View ArticleOne-third of Australia's flying fox bat population wiped out in just 2 days.
Australia has been sweltering in a second severe heatwave this month. Temperatures have reached 21.6 F degrees higher than average as a heat wave spread across the continent. The unbearable heat will...
View ArticleBFD - House Dem's writing legislation to ban Trump from oil drilling off all...
This is why we vote.In a recent diary of mine, I was asked by a fellow Kossack if I ever had any good news to share about the climate. Of course, I had to fess up, so I said: “no, not really”. But then...
View ArticleFifteen charged in lead poisoning of Flint, MI. Key perpetrators skate, new...
Flint is what happens when we dismiss science. Flint is what happens when we dismiss people. Flint is what happens when saving money is more important than public health. Dr. Mona Hanna-AttishaMona...
View ArticleKamala Harris well positioned to base her campaign on the urgency of action...
"Sen. Harris believes we are completely under-reacting to the crisis of climate change." Lily Adams, communications directorLike everybody else, I am excited about the presidential talent pool that we...
View ArticleAntarctica's floodgates crumbling; Southern Ocean belches CO2; Safe ice...
I keep vigil.The vast continent at the bottom of the world is isolated from the rest of the land masses on earth. This isolation is also due to its long dark winters, ice-covered landscapes, snow...
View ArticleThe murder of Mayan activists portends a Human Rights crisis; climate change...
"It's no surprise that we see ... tens of thousands of Guatemalans fleeing the country going into Mexico trying to get to the United States to flee a country that is in free-fall — where there are no...
View ArticleClimate disruption is coming and, the super rich know it - prep themselves to...
“Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.” Samuel JohnsonThe four hottest years in human history have occurred during the years of...
View ArticleThe mid-west will be colder than Antarctica. The perfect time for Trump to...
I remember the bitter cold snaps when I was growing up in the mid-west. The worried faces of my parents, scared to death that the water pipes would freeze and burst, flooding the house. I remember my...
View ArticleNASA discovers an enormous cavity in Thwaites Glacier signaling rapid decay...
I keep vigil.More devastating news out of West Antarctica. The Thwaites glacier base is attached to the marine bedrock, or it use to be anyways. New NASA satellite imagery shows rapid deterioration of...
View ArticleIn a world of social injustice and climate paralysis, you may hold the power...
I don’t plead with this community to read my diaries and act on my issues (With one exception, when Trump came to Mar-a-Lago for the first time after the electoral college failed their constitutional...
View ArticleClimate weirding: MIT Study finds that the surface ocean will shift in color...
“There will be a noticeable difference in the color of 50 percent of the ocean by the end of the 21st century it could be potentially quite serious. Different types of phytoplankton absorb light...
View ArticleCrocodiles roam streets in Queensland, Australia after record-breaking...
I keep vigil.Poor Australia. Extreme weather events are being amplified by climate change on the continent "as they are occurring in an atmosphere that contains more energy than 50 years ago" reports...
View ArticleFirst calving event at Brunt Ice Shelf in 47 years is looking inevitable - it...
FYIThe Brunt Ice Shelf is tearing itself apart and could create an iceberg the size of Delaware. Most of the scientists I follow expect that to happen “soon”.The Brunt Ice Shelf borders the Antarctic...
View ArticleMethane is being released in the thawing Arctic, but the scariest scenario,...
“If we mitigate, or reduce, human emissions, [it] looks like you can avoid 70 to 80 percent of the permafrost climate feedback,” Ben Abbott of Brigham Young University.Which buys us some time, no? But...
View ArticleDhaka is collapsing.
The poorest of the poor in Bangladesh are on the move due to the climate crisis. I will state the obvious, Bangladeshis are not white caucasians. Therefore, not many here in the West give a rats ass...
View ArticleA new rift in Greenlands longest floating glacier portends rapid acceleration...
FYI From the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research When this crack calves a new iceberg, it may take fifty percent of the floating existing glacial tongue with it....
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