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Today I said to Suz, “Why don’t you fish with me in the morn so we can take home 4 steelhead instead of 2?” She said “Try ‘I love spending time with you, Honey, so why don’t you join me in the morning?’” “You must think I’m Italian, or something,” I said. It reminded me…

“Somehow — in spite of all the madness, all the stupidity — somehow the thing could be done.” — Tim O’Brien, Going After Cacciato “There must have been a moment, at the beginning, where we could have said — no. But somehow we missed it.” — Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

March 11, 2019 Update from The Guardian: “Robock said one of his studies contains a list of 27 reasons why Earth-cooling aerosols might be a bad idea. And he added that the technology could cost hundreds of billions of dollars a year and would pose complicated ethical questions, such as whether people have a right…

This morning when I saw President Trump appointed William Happer to consider a Climate Panel, I thought it was a bad dream. It wasn’t. He did. As a reminder, Happer was refuted by MacCracken in 2011. In yesterday’s Washington Post article “White House prepares to scrutinize intelligence agencies’ finding that climate change threatens national security,” Francesco Femia,…

Today, I’m recalling Cobain, Bowie, and prophetic power of art.  U.S. politicians think they are better scientists than scientists.  Climate history has shown politicians are not.  The above link goes to “Nirvana – The Man Who Sold The World (MTV Unplugged),” a song by David Bowie. Lyrics include “Oh no, not me/We never lost control.”…

I greatly enjoyed this 40 minute podcast because of how it humanizes thought about climate change in terms of the best of us — creative, playful, humorous, empathetic, honest — instead of evil anthropocene roller derby twin. Sure, it’s almost a year old, but like Socrates and his almost- contemporary Chuang Tzu, still highly relevant…

Updates Feb. 12, 2019, April 2019, and June 2019 are below. June 2019 Update: Dave Borlace’s Just Have a Think channel provided clear background on University of Alaska Fairbanks Associate Professor Natalia Shakhova’s methane position, and her June 5, 2019 paper published by Geosciences.  February 2019 Update: Thanks to Dahr Jamail for this update today: “[Dr. Ira Leifer,…

I and English artist Guy Denning have a new book from Fomite Press in Vermont combining 78 of my climate change poems with 12 of his works of activism, refugees, human vulnerability, and realism known throughout Europe. The book is available at Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.fr, Amazon.de, Amazon.com.au, Amazon.co.jp, Amazon.com.br,  Amazon.com.mx, Amazon.international (Russia, Ukraine, South Korea, Hong Kong, Turkey), or…

Yesterday I remembered Slim Bracken, lifelong logger and one of my best fishing buds who died recently after falling off his bike.  Slim was one of those rare anglers who combined great jokes, local knowledge, and uncommon generosity giving me “first casts” through new water. Last year, at age 79, he drove Suz “on a quiet…