Author Archives: Brooklyn Culture Jammers
Crazy white men with guns in Oregon (updated)
UPDATE–a more relevant photo meme just out after the local sheriff had a hand-shake with Ammon Bundy. Assuming you’re paying attention, you’ve heard that self-styled ‘militia’ have swept down on Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon and taken it over, vowing to not move ‘for years’. There’s a breakdown of the various stances on Vox, which is […]
Going after Exxon in the court of public opinion– UPDATED
Image from DailyKos article on what the oil companies knew and when they knew it. In this case the illustration shows temperature anomalies for the last week of December 2015. (Scroll to bottom for important update). Peter Sinclair, the blogger behind Climate Change Crock of the Week, put the highlighted text as the title of his […]
They won’t tell us: ‘Crazy’ NTHE allegations
I’ve delayed posting this for over a week now. I’m still not sure I should. As all of you who’ve been paying attention might have noticed, I’m a reluctant convert to the idea that humanity has already passed all the tipping points on mitigating the damage we’ve done to the earth. I know this is […]
Where the Hell did I go?
Sorry, it’s been a really tough Holiday season and I have not much to tell you that will warm the cockles of your heart. This missive arrived in my FB feed this AM: While institutional science will take years, if not decades, to confirm a correlation between human-forced climate change and strong North Atlantic storms, […]
We’re screwed– evidence no longer matters
This has been on my mind for a few days now. It was sparked by an article in VOX about why we’re stuck in neutral vis a vis the gun violence in this country. And it’s also why (COP21 Paris notwithstanding) we won’t come up with anything that can realistically be called a ‘plan’ to deal […]
“The Paris Agreement will see the planet burn”
This is mostly a regurgitation of a bunch of other people’s work (specifically, props to the folks at Democracy NOW, who haven’t been distracted by other news during the COP21 meeting). I don’t know whether to be relieved or saddened that many of the information dumps coming out of the COP21 Paris meeting are confirming the […]
Thank you, Donald Trump
I’ve noticed a big drop off in one sort of Facebook meme lately. Although lefty and progressive people are still posting funny videos of presidential candidate (and continued GOP front-runner) Donald Trump, these have been replaced in large part by serious, sober-sounding analysis of what to do if he becomes the GOP presidential candidate. Specifically, people […]
New Video: “What Exxon Knew”
From Peter Sinclair. A video dissecting what Exxon knew in 1982 (if not earlier). Everything that our climate activists (including Al Gore) were saying was borne out by Exxon’s early predictions. Meanwhile, 350.org engaged in a People’s Trial of Exxon over the weekend. Held in France as part of the COP21 Summit, the prosecutors were […]
Pearl Harbor anniversary–For them all
USS Salinas (A0 19), the first USN ship hit by German torpedoes in WWII on October 30, 1941. Thirty-eight days prior to Pearl Harbor, the men of the Atlantic Convoys were already at war. I feel like a fraud. I’m trying to talk knowledgeably about ‘a day which will live in infamy‘. Nobody in my father […]
The Brooklyn Culture Jam 