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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…

Donated to Fort Vancouver Regional Library Foundation. My July clay art is about drought in a previous year, good for the next two ice ages if anyone is here to see it.  Some of my other pieces are at this link. My favorite climate video I recently watched was How Earth’s Geography Will Change With Climate Change [in…

The recent idea to divert Mississippi River water (over objections of people who live there) to the Colorado River System reminds me of the bizarre no-music ballet scene in the film Amadeus. It seems more vital to greatly reduce GHGs (greenhouse gas emissions) instead, even if fossil fuel companies resist. I recall a story about a…

Used with permission of DW. It seems no one told these water managers from California to Germany to Afghanistan about the importance of distraction, sugarcoating, and when politically needed, bold-faced lies.  In a more serious tone, the desperation reminds me of when William Shatner, Star Trek’s original Captain James Kirk, in 2015 wanted a water pipeline from Seattle…

  I’m grateful Lower Columbia College in Longview, Washington accepted my Clay Salmon Poem in their art collection.  I recently donated other pieces to Washington State University, Vancouver Library, and Columbia Basin Fish & Wildlife Library, a program of the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission.  Imagine, by 2053 if IPCC reports at current rates are true,  …

Used with permission of DW. In the above YouTube, Professor Stefan Rahmstorf of Postsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research explains jet stream weather changes as “hot dry sunny weather lingers for longer, maybe for weeks on end, therefore causing drought problems, wildfire problems, and also the rainfall systems are moving more slowly, and that was one…

After the Bureaucratic Meeting dried salmon, raw apple, hand-picked blackberries,a few honest words circling wood firefollowed by silent glowfor people who crave real food. Everyone here knowsour dreams tell uswe put too many limits on ourselves tosee, feel, think, do. Maybe there’s a song so ancientit makes all stop to listenwho we really are, and…