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This morning at 3:45 a.m. I heard a growl behind me, and rocks fell as I sat alone by the Oregon river under stars. I thought it was local guys I know playing a trick, but when they arrived an hour later they said no, and no other cars were above but they saw two…

Update: Oliver Milman has a great article in The Guardian “US schools accused of censoring climate crisis message in graduation speeches” which includes San Diego student Jessica Lopez of Health Sciences High and Middle College. It is the responsibility of US citizens to think globally. Now is a good time to repost the video Odyssey…

“Exercising my ‘reasoned judgment,’ I have no doubt that the right to a climate system capable of sustaining human life is fundamental to a free and ordered society.” – U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken June 23 Update: 60 Minutes posted the longer version of the story The climate change lawsuit that could stop the U.S.…

“In the face of our overwhelming climate and political crises, that grief is transformed into a new clarity of vision, and a depth of passion for action that was previously inaccessible.” — Dahr Jamail, June 3, 2019, TRUTHOUT

On the Road with Thomas Merton from Emergence Magazine on Vimeo. Used with permission. “When we think of it with this knowledge, we see that we have been locked up, and led blindfold, and it is the wise of this world who have shut and locked us up in their art and their rationality, so that…

To complement what Jamail says about the IPCC, you may want to see this link. A May 21, 2019, CNN article on sea level rise also fits the pattern of too-conservative predictions noting there is a “5%” chance “by 2100, sea levels could rise by more than two meters (6.6 feet) in the same period…

Bad News The Washington Post reported three days ago “It was 84 degrees near the Arctic Ocean this weekend as carbon dioxide hit its highest level in human history” and Democracy Now! noted “temperatures near the entrance to the Arctic Ocean in northwest Russia [have] high temperatures [. . . in a place] normally 30…

I recall reading an October 7, 2015 article at smithsonianmag.com “Iraqi Museum Discovers Missing Lines From the Epic of Gilgamesh”: “The previously available text made it clear that [Gilgamesh] and Enkidu knew, even before they killed Humbaba, that what they were doing would anger the cosmic forces that governed the world, chiefly the god Enlil.…

Click for film trailer. “They told him he was crazy, but crazy is sitting idly by as disaster for young people is knowingly locked in.” — Dr. James Hansen, Climate Scientist “The Reluctant Radical is the most striking environmental documentary I’ve seen to date- and I have seen plenty. It is an absolute must-see.” —…

Thank you to readers from 70 countries (see 8 posts down at bottom of “Arctic Methane Debate Rages On”).  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…