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Earth Rent, written by my Honors Climate Change Poetry students, is in  San Diego Mesa College Library.  The class will be offered again Fall 2018. Most people I meet are unaware of the likelihood of an ice-free Arctic by 2050 for the first time since humans have been on the Earth which has been about 300,000…

St. Sebastian Andrea Mantegna, 1490 Panel, 210 × 91 cm Ca’ d’Oro, Venice “The artist’s intentions for the work are explained by a banderol spiralling around an extinguished candle, in the lower right corner. Here, in Latin, it is written: Nihil nisi divinum stabile est. Caetera fumus (‘Nothing is stable if not divine. The rest…

Someone left this monstrosity in one of my favorite salmon holes.  A sabertooth salmon? The article notes, “Imagine a six to seven-foot sockeye salmon jumping up a waterfall or coming to its end in a calm mountain pool.” Black bears would have to do a 180 turn and run to escape the jaws. With this…

The vast majority of global scientists agree climate breakdown is caused by overuse of fossil fuels which must be quickly reduced to restore natural trends and overall long-term eco-stability. Location-specific climate breakdowns in the North Atlantic (Norse) and southwestern United States (Mimbres,  Mesa Verde, Hohokam) show Flexibility + Resiliency = Survival.  In other words, oil and coal must go.…

Thank you to the 138 visitors from South Korea October 14.

Image graphic: Created by David McCarthy (Hawk on Wire book cover and promo video screen capture). Thanks to Yale Climate Connections for an interview. Thanks also to Ross Cagenello for a Fomite Author Spotlight interview. Update: I received notice Hawk on Wire was chosen from over 1,500 books as a 2018 Montaigne Medal Finalist sponsored…

Last night in class someone asked if climate change caused recent hurricanes. Scientists agree the answer is no.  Instead, scientists note, climate change influences hurricane damage in three ways: 1) sea-level rise means higher storm surges are possible; 2) increased moisture produces higher floods; and 3) storm intensity increases from added heat energy.  Looking at…

The Guardian has some of the best coverage of Hurricane Irma updates.  The video on top of their page shows damage in the Caribbean islands. I’m not sure why my blog is getting thousands of visits from Russia, but thanks.  I appreciate your interest. One of my favorite films is Burnt by the Sun by…

It looks like the planet has had enough of us, or maybe most of us.  Those crying climate scientists are starting to make sense.  As one noted in a radio interview in the above-linked article, “I love the oceans, [ . . . ] I feel passionately about what we are doing to them and…

Some readers may want to know how to help those most affected by Hurricane Harvey.  There are many good organizations.  My choice is the Houston Food Bank because: 1) It was rated high by www.businessinsider.com and 2) It was recommended by www.charitynavigator.org which noted “please consider Houston Food Bank [ . . . ] located in…