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Quotes from Hertsgaard’s article in the Dec. 2, 2020 issue of The Nation include: “In an extraordinary, if largely unheralded, diplomatic achievement, most of the world’s leading emitters have already joined the UN’s ‘net zero by 2050’ coalition, including the European Union, Japan, the United Kingdom, and China (which is the world’s largest source of annual…

Yale Climate Connections recently published an audio/text article by psychologist/researcher/journalist Renée Lertzman, “Why frightening facts don’t always move people to action on climate change.” The article noted “Ask people what they know and want to learn. Then have a conversation [ . . . because] it can get results faster.” She said “When we take a compassion-based approach,…

James Temple’s subtitle is “Passing aggressive climate laws will be highly difficult without Democratic control of the Senate. But there are other ways to make progress.” See the November 6, 2020 article here.  Temple wrote “A Biden administration would [ . . . ] be likely to quickly remove the roster of climate deniers, fossil-fuel lobbyists,…

I invited Richard Tibbetts, Communications Specialist for the Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy (CASSE), to write a guest post because I was impressed with CASSE’s steadystate.org Website, and saw writer David Orr on the Executive Board.  It seems CASSE Mission’s second point of “promoting the steady state economy as a desirable…

UPDATE: Columbia Riverkeeper reported “a broad coalition of over 30 community organizations representing tens of thousands of people from across the Northwest urged the Washington Department of Ecology and Governor Jay Inslee to deny the world’s largest fracked gas-to-methanol refinery, proposed in Kalama, Washington. Over the past 40 days, thousands of commenters urged denial of…

In George Orwell’s novel 1984, he wrote “It is not merely that speeches, statistics, and records of every kind must be constantly brought up to date in order to show that the predictions of the Party were in all cases right. It is also that no change in doctrine or in political alignment can ever…

I read Jeff Gibbs’ interview regarding his controversial film Planet of the Humans which I saw. In Gibbs’ interview he noted “All of the data in the form of charts and graphs are from the most recent year available, typically 2019 or 2020.”  The problem, as Dave Borlace notes, is Gibbs’ main arguments in the film about…

  Video used with permission of Aspen Strategy Group. In the above video Pulitzer-winning science reporter Laurie Garrett and New York Times writer David Leonhardt give an overview of the COVID-19 situation in the United States as they explain “How COVID-19 Will Reshape the Globe.”  Garrett notes regarding “economic disruption,” “I’m looking at it from the…

An 18 pound and 16 pound spring chinook on my truck gate in June 2020. “CATCHING SPRING CHINOOK” is an article I wrote for Northwest Fishing Reports four years ago. Suz and I had another fight over which fish is better, winter steelhead or summer steelhead? I said winter because they are bigger, and I…

Creek not far from my house. Big Leaf Maple. Nearby barn owl. Red Dragonfly of Transformation Appeared in the Garden Suz cut my hair but it turned out lopsided as, due to her allergy, she only has one good eye. In return, I let her fish with my Lamiglas rod for the first time in…