Category climate disruption
While we were distracted…(updated)
While we ‘Muricans were fighting about the worst election in modern US history, this news came in from the Arctic. You can read past posts I’ve had here about the loss of Arctic ice, but it has always started coming back in October of each year. Not this year. If this is the ‘new November’, […]
New chart on Methane and climate
Not much to say here. I’ve used the 2014 version of this chart in previous posts. This chart is a bit complicated. The numbers along the bottom are years, with the chart at 2016. The numbers along the left side are estimates of methane in the atmosphere. The (mostly) pink triangle predicts when certain milestones […]
GOOD MORNING! (bite me)
(Please don’t read this if you’re already as morose as I am. I don’t like the phrase ‘trigger warning’ but I’ve got a few here. Please remember I’m the guy who showed you this picture about the upcoming election). Wow! An interesting if less-than-productive summer, with Labor Day approaching like a woman scorned. I’m tired. Like […]
End stage capitalism– spelled ‘Louisiana’
Some friends associated with the venerable Living Theatre of 1960’s fame are currently touring a show on capitalism as a form of sado-masochism. I got to see Know Your Rites at a dress rehearsal. Not an easy thing to watch, but I’ve been thinking about it a great deal (and you should go see it […]
When Habitat packs it in
Election is out of my system for the most part, so I thought I’d post this. As you know (if you’ve followed my posts), I’m doing a funny little play called PLANET HOSPICE come November and it’s about human extinction. People in denial about how far we’ve passed the tipping point seem to forget that […]
Restaurant at the END of the WORLD
Originally posted on Paul Beckwith, Climate System Scientist:
Restaurant at the END of the WORLD // Published on Jul 31, 2016 People were eating dinner on a second floor restaurant in Ellicott, Maryland when the street became a river, and then a raging torrent. My video is a social commentary on the restaurant patron behaviour…
Sanders end-game and the DNC
Hillary Rodham Clinton is now the official nominee for the DNC. As Sting would say, Well, good luck to ya. I knew last year that Bernie stood almost no chance of winning the nomination. But he finished far better than any runner-up since the presidential primary system began. And between the Arnebeck lawsuit, the coming […]
July 29 and it’s all over–maybe
Yup, that’s what it says in the Bible according to this lovely blog post. The kicker is that the end will come from a reversing of the earth’s magnetic poles. But make no mistake, this isn’t extinction from scientific reasons I’ve outlined in earlier blogposts. Nope, it’s because Jesus is coming back. You can waste […]
Where your job went and why it won’t come back
A week or so ago I posted a fancy-pants essay by Kevin Hester, one of my buds in the NTHE movement (near term human extinction for the uninitiated). It used the language of the anti-capitalism movements, including the Occupy Wall Street folks. The thesis of Hester’s article was that capitalism is dying because the planet […]
Consensus on AGW 99.99%
This is a chart just released by Dr. James Lawrence Powell, a retired professor with the appropriate credentials who (during his long productive career) sat on a number of important government boards on science. I had written about him after he consented to be on my late radio show a couple years ago (full details and […]
The Brooklyn Culture Jam 