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Those who closely follow the climate emergency know even if we had COP26 global cooperation, and sincere GHG (greenhouse gas) reduction commitments by 2030, the climate future would be challenging. It’s important to note, according to Carbon Brief “[ . . . ] the US [ . . . ] is responsible for the largest share…

Used with permission of Extinction Rebellion. The gap between COP26 rhetoric and action reminds me of the end of Nirvana’s song “Smells Like Teen Spirit”: “A denial, a denial, a denial, a denial, a denial/ A denial, a denial, a denial, a denial.” Previously, I linked to their playing of David Bowie’s song “The Man…

Recently, a professor of statistics at my college said the probability of 115 F (46 C) in Seattle before June 2021 was zero, but it happened. He added at the time there were better odds buying one lottery ticket, and winning. In my August 4, 2021 post “Gauguin and July 2021,” I wrote about “120 Fahrenheit…

October 2021, Near a Washington State River On my truck gate, pulling up waders,branches snap in morning dark as a cougar stalks me. When it gets closer, I re-enter and wait untila fellow angler arrives and we descend in canyon. We split at two trails, and the cougar follows me.I toss rocks and yell at…

Donated to Washington State University, Vancouver Library Recent words of climate desperation are not encouraging. Jeff Goodell’s excellent 10/1/21 Rolling Stone article “Joe Manchin Just Cooked the Planet” noted, “As climate journalist Amy Westervelt put it with characteristic aplomb: ‘The change these motherfuckers are signing us up for is so many times more radical than any climate policy ever…

Blog readers may recall my February 7, 2019, post “Arctic Methane Debate Rages On,” and my October 28, 2017, post “‘If we lose the Arctic, we lose the globe.’ — President Niinistö of Finland in Joint Press Conference with President Trump, August 28, 2017.” In 2015 Bill Nye made a 3-minute video of this methane threat with Arnold Schwarzenegger…

JOANNA MACY: Climate Crisis As Spiritual Path from Old Dog Documentaries on Vimeo. (Used with permission.) In the above video Rainer Maria Rilke translator, eco-philosopher, and 50-year activist Joanna Macy says “We’ve been thinking that we are consumers. [ . . . . ] all the time imprisioned in this shrunken sense of self. And now…

I agree with Don Sampson of Northwest Tribal Salmon Alliance, “We’re in a salmon crisis. [ . . . . ] They’re suffocating. They’re weakened. [ . . . . ] We need cold, clean water, and we’ve got to take the Snake River Dams down to make that happen.” Please share. 

For many years people asked me for good climate news, and I expect this to increase with the haunting new sixth report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Regarding this, I like Mary Annaïse Heglar’s tweet she gave me permission to repost January 2020: “My wish for 2020 is for people to stop asking…

Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? 1897-1898 –Paul Gauguin, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons August 5, 2021 Update — My favorite recent climate article is by Thom Hartmann in Salon “Civilization-ending climate change is knocking on the door — unless we act now” featuring Dr. Jason Box who “Last…