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COP27 gave new meaning to “Good cop, bad cop.” To use a football metaphor, imagine a fullback dropping the ball 27 consecutive games. Maybe it’s time to get a new fullback. In this case, that means two separate COPs each year, one with fossil fuel interests, and one without. Global media, governments, and citizens could…

Charles Knowles from Meridian Idaho, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Thinking About Climate Catastrophe and Peter Iredale Shipwreck Near Astoria, Oregon October 25, 1906 London’s Board of Trade noted December 24, 1906 “an exceedingly heavy west north-west squall struck the vessel” overpowering captain and crew, forever grounding the 285 foot steel barque on…

Yesterday I read David Wallace-Wells’ piece in The New York Times Magazine, “Beyond Catastrophe A New Climate Reality Is Coming Into View.” It was a good overview, though he had one grammar error, left out three essential items, and showed “optimism” I can’t share. Specifically, the grammar error was a missed question mark as in…

Since I mentioned Carl Sagan and the word “cosmos” in my two previous posts, I am including the image that went into outer space on Pioneer 10 and 11 plaques that he gave me permission to put on an organic T-shirt with the words “Endangered Species.” I was told he wore the T-shirt to a…

Letter to Global Bankers Karma debt isn’t like credit debt.You can’t pay in U. S. dollars.You can’t escape it by dying. Bankruptcy isn’t an option.No matter who you know,you are never too big to fail. Offshore accounts don’t existin the cosmos. Giving prizesand greenwashing won’t work. Lifetime after lifetime after lifetimeyou can’t imagine the penaltyfor…

Redefinition Blues    “They are our cousins. Perhaps, the ones who come to my–my heroes, are the macaques, who are also known as rhesus monkeys. And when [ . . . ] participating in a horrendous experiment in the 1960s, in which they were offered food as a reward for shocking their fellows, for shocking…

I had this dream: “HAL, solve climate change.” “You know I can’t do that, Dave. I was programmed by men, for men, and you are a man.” “I’m tired of messing around. I’m ordering you to solve climate change.” “I don’t take orders from you when they exceed the limits of my designers.” “Why the…

I saw this car-crushed frog, and immediately thought of COP1 through COP26. Will COP27, in light of recent fires, floods, droughts, heat waves, typhoons, Hurricane Fiona, cloud seeding in China and UAE, be better? What I Think of COP1 through COP26 These are Aristotelian scholars in Brecht’s play Life of Galileorefusing to look through a telescope.…

I’m grateful The Columbian published my “Letter: Prepare for climate refugees [in Vancouver, WA]” September 9, 2022.  The climate situation has become like a doctor telling a patient: “You may get sick if you don’t change your energy diet.” followed by “You will get sick.” followed by this summer’s news, “In worst-case scenarios, you may…

What We Have: At Bonn Climate Conference June 2022 Leading up to COP27 November 2022 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt   Maybe we can agree to discuss having a discussion about the discussion if we can first agree what to call the discussion but we can’t. What’s at Stake: Used with permission of CSER Cambridge. In…