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James Hansen recently said at 8:18 on a YouTube featuring “his keynote at ATLAS25,” “I will argue that we are on track for AMOC [(Atlantic meridional overturning circulation)] shutdown within a few decades. And in turn this will accelerate melting of Antarctic ice shelves and large sea level rise.” As a reminder, in my previous…

The COP30 sacrifice zone appears to be everywhere beyond their warped imaginations. While Bill Gates may have meant well, he would have been wise to consult David Spratt before sending his Oct 28, 2025 “Three tough truths about climate” to COP30. Australian David Spratt, Research Director, Breakthrough National Centre for Climate Restoration is similar to…

The official site for the UN Climate Change Conference – Belém, November 2025 in Brazil notes “a look-alike domain” has been sending invitations trying “to obtain money and/or in many cases personal details.” I don’t expect much progress at COP30, but will be glad to be surprised. Specifically, I mean finance, adaptation, carbon markets, keeping…

Rapid expansion of small-scale geoengineering will happen sooner than most think, and there is about the same chance of avoiding an increasing number of major climate impacts, even in developed nations of the Global North, as Lassie the Collie designing, building, and driving a car. July 30, 2022 I posted “Professor Stefan Rahmstorf of Postsdam…

It was a blessing to live when there were steelhead trout, chinook and coho salmon, tropical coral reefs, rain and temperate forests. A Native friend said now is the time to focus on gratitude, and helping young people.

“This day-to-day falsification of the past, carried out by the Ministry of Truth, is as necessary to the stability of the regime as the work of repression and espionage carried out by the Ministry of Love. [par break] The mutability of the past is the central tenet of Ingsoc.” 1984, George Orwell Regarding climate data,…

Thoughts and prayers for those in the Los Angeles Area, and worse yet to come in other areas. Of course, loss of human life, now set at 25, is my main concern. I also asked ChatGPT about property losses and coverage, and it said about 250 billion in “total economic impact,” but only about 30…

I generally look to Australia’s December/January summer weather to guess USA’s July/August summer weather. The New South Wales Australian forecast December 16 was 46 C (about 113 Fahnrenheit) to 47 C (nearly 117 Fahnrenheit) which, if the pattern from recent years holds, means a scorcher for the USA in summer 2025. In a related matter,…

Since I was a world literature/creative writing professor, below is a multiple-choice test: Which one doesn’t fit? A. Santa Claus B. Easter Bunny C. Direct Air Capture (of carbon) D. Tooth Fairy E. Sanity If you chose E, you are correct! Direct Air Capture (of carbon) has been a ridiculous excuse to increase fossil fuel…

Thoughts and prayers for the people of Asheville, North Carolina and  Valencia, Spain due to severe flooding. Gavin Schmidt, Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York, was interviewed by Elizabeth Kolbert October 10, 2024, in Yale Environment 360, “What’s Causing the Recent Spike in Global Temperatures?”: “We started to…