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Venus II or Eden II? “What can we do about climate change?” someone asked me again yesterday. Start here. The Atlantic posted a July 10, 2017 rebuttal to Wallis-Wells’ nymag.com article above I linked as “Venus II.”  The U. S. Geological Survey and the University of Rochester noted in a recent study the Arctic-methane issue may not…

An Empty Garlic You miss the garden,because you want a small fig from a random tree.You don’t meet the beautiful woman.You’re joking with an old crone.It makes me want to cry how she detains you,stinking mouthed, with a hundred talons,putting her head over the roof edge to call down,tasteless fig, fold over fold, emptyas dry-rotten…

This is part of my May 2 book launch reading sponsored by La Jolla Historical Society’s project WEATHER ON STEROIDS: THE ART OF CLIMATE CHANGE SCIENCE.  About 50 people attended. Many stayed after to ask questions and share concerns and ideas about climate change. 

This book was a July 2017 “Editor’s Pick” (along with  The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury) at Newpages.com,  and was selected from over 1,500 books as a 2018  Montaigne Medal Finalist sponsored by Eric Hoffer Awards for “the most thought-provoking books.” It is available at Amazon.com or BN.com. The Kindle price is $4.99. Climate change science and prophecy explored in poetry are themes in…

Tadpoles Car top egg cure. My first three nights back in Oregon I sat on a river rock under the stars all night to clear my head. One morning, at a restaurant near the river, a waitress asked me, “Where’s your wife?” “She’s working so I can fish.” “You’re an Asshole,” said the waitress. The…

Used with permission of Bizarro.com. Future historians, if there are any, will trace the beginning of the end to Citizens United, a slap in the face of all those we remember this Memorial Day including my grandfather who fought as a U. S. Marine in WWI in the trenches of France. The question remains: Will this…

Broken Ritual One year salmon didn’t return to the river and men said maybe they got lost even though in millennia it had never happened to an entire run. Wind rapped the old wood door saying to anyone listening “They didn’t get lost.  You did.“ (from my book Hawk on Wire) Today, Bill Monroe at Oregonlive.com…

How it Goes My wife complains our raft is leaking and she has ice water up her butt. “Small price to hook a steelhead,” I say. Next, my felt hat floats by then our cooler, and I turn to see my old Fenwick broke and stuck in sand like antennas of old TVs or giant…

• TOLES © 2017 The Washington Post. Reprinted with permission of ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATION. All rights reserved. I was a marshal at the People’s Climate March on April 29 in San Diego which had about 5,000 activists join with 200,000 in Washington, D. C.  A man, looking at my vest, asked what it took to…

One of my favorite Far Side cartoons has two guys fishing in a small boat, three nuclear mushroom clouds in the background, and the text “no size restrictions and screw the limit.” I would include the cartoon here, but Larson wrote “please refrain from putting The Far Side out on the Internet” so I will…