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Some thought my last post was a bit dramatic, but it was, unfortunately, factual. In other words, look, look, look at news the past two days: “Huge waves and disease turn Marshall Islands into ‘a war zone,’ health official says” by Susanne Rust in Los Angeles Times. “This week, the picture grew even bleaker as…

I may be a fisherman, and you may be the most powerful puppets on Earth, but your unbalanced goal to pursue competitive advantage over sustainable cooperation will, according to your scientists in your countries, kill most everyone and everything you value unless you rise to a higher level of consciousness by telling Big Oil their…

Sometimes I take a break from climate work to fish. On March 31, 2019, I wrote “The problem is greenhouse gases are invisible, and solution is to require by international law fossil fuel emissions in all countries be immediately colored purple the same way rotten egg scent is added to natural gas to alert homeowners…

Used with permission of ClimateAdam also known as a doctor in atmospheric physics (University of Oxford) focused on communicating complex scientific ideas with engaging multimedia stories on his award-winning YouTube channel. I found this at skepticalscience.com. Listen to Dr. Piers Sellers, former NASA astronaut and Director of the Earth Science Division at NASA/GSFC, in the film Before the Flood complement…

Used with permission of POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH  and used by Paul Beckwith.  Update: The Guardian, at Rockström’s request, changed the quote below for a 4 C world to “It’s difficult to see how we could accommodate eight billion people or maybe even half of that.” As a reminder, here is why the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel…

I saw the great film The [Torture] Report at Digital Gym in San Diego, and hope a similar one is in the pipeline about climate crisis and fossil fuel companies, another national disgrace. Showtimes are here. Former San Diego Mesa College student Annette Bening plays California U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, effectively showing what happens when incompetent…

Used with permission of Extinction Rebellion. Julian Cribb wrote an excellent update November 29, 2019 at The Guardian on global bushfires. Here is a November 14, 2019, update on former Australian fire chiefs’ request, and a November 13, 2019, update on koala bears and other wildlife losing habitat. Related to the Mullins quotes below, the above Extinction…

See the CBS News video Senators announce bipartisan climate caucus: “We look a bit like Neanderthals.”  Talk of going after “low hanging fruit” reminds me of Christine Lagarde’s statement about the 2008 financial crisis in the film Inside Job: “And l clearly remember telling Hank: ‘We are watching this tsunami coming, and you’re just proposing that…

“Radiohead – Idioteque” used with permission of Extinction Rebellion. It’s a hard but important time for creative artists, scientists, young people, and middle aged or elders of conscience. Washington Governor Jay Inslee said in his recent Rolling Stone interview with Jeff Goodell “The more I think about this, the more I understand this [climate] challenge as a…

A few nights ago, I quoted John Steinbeck in my World Literature class from his fall 1969 Paris Review interview: “The writers of today, even I, have a tendency to celebrate the destruction of the spirit and god knows it is destroyed often enough. But the beacon thing is that sometimes it is not.” I also thought…