# Trees, Fish, and Dreams Climateblog

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## Posts

- [Starfisher Days](https://climhub.org/starfisher-days/): I had a good 6 mile walk along the sea today remembering my Starfisher days in Oregon.
- [Rumi Snow Cone](https://climhub.org/rumi-snow-cone/): On my daily walks along the sea in San Diego, young ones sport neon-bright tattoos and hair streaks like they crashed into a giant snow cone stand that morphed into beautiful art such as eagles, roses, haiku, etc.
- [Five Seabeck Poems](https://climhub.org/five-seabeck-poems/): Thanks to Larry Kerschner, editor of Pacific Call, and Ellen Finkelstein, organizer for the Western Washington Fellowship of Reconciliation (WWFOR), for publishing my "Five Seabeck Poems" I wrote July 3 through July 6 as a Friends of William Stafford Scholar at the "Speak Truth to Power" Fellowship of Reconciliation Seabeck Conference on Hood Canal in Washington.
- [Manifesto from Poet on a Dying Planet](https://climhub.org/manifesto-from-poet-on-dying-planet/): Thanks to editor Crystal S. Gibbins of Split Rock Review for publishing my "Manifesto from Poet on a Dying Planet."
- [Expressionism in Germany and France Exhibit at LACMA June 8, 2014 to Sept. 14, 2014](https://climhub.org/expressionism-in-germany-and-france/): If you visit LA by Sept. 14, 2014, you may want to see the Expressionism Exhibit at LACMA.
- [Enlightenment for $19.99](https://climhub.org/enlightenment-for-1999/): Thanks to Festival Writer for publishing my new poem "Enlightenment for $19.99" about Jungian psychology, real and imaginary Post Office clerks, and a "genuine whale tooth" I never received from BAZOOKA Bubble Gum at Box 9200, St.
- [The Healing Power of Water](https://climhub.org/the-healing-power-of-water-photos-will/): A fat 14-inch trout fresh from the sea.
- [The Fish Who Swallowed Time](https://climhub.org/the-fish-who-swallowed-time/): Thanks to The Release Literary Magazine for publishing my poem "The Fish Who Swallowed Time" in their inaugural issue.
- [Salmon Thoughts](https://climhub.org/salmon-thoughts/): Thanks to Bonnie for taking this photo and emailing it.
- [Raft and Spinner](https://climhub.org/raft-and-spinner/): Two coastal summer steelhead I caught four days ago.
- [2014 FOR Seabeck Conference on Hood Canal in Washington](https://climhub.org/2014-for-seabeck-conference-on-hood/): I spent July 3 through July 6 as a Friends of William Stafford Scholar at the "Speak Truth to Power" FOR (Fellowship of Reconciliation) Seabeck Conference on Hood Canal in Washington.
- [Summer Steelhead and Tiger Lily](https://climhub.org/summer-steelhead-and-tiger-lily/): Here's a summer steelhead I caught two days ago on a 2/3 ounce Red-dotted Calf Tail Teardrop High Mountain Blaze-spoon with yellow hook feathers.
- [Salmon vs Shad](https://climhub.org/salmon-vs-shad/): Spring Chinook I caught yesterday.
- [I know Rumi wrote, "The wound is the place where the Light enters you." but sometimes it's just a fishhook.](https://climhub.org/i-know-rumi-wrote-wound-is-place-where/): I know Rumi wrote, "The wound is the place where the Light enters you." but sometimes it's just a fishhook.
- [Fishing Essay and New Poem](https://climhub.org/fishing-essay-and-new-poem/): Many thanks to the powerful Alaskan writer Marybeth Holleman for reposting my fishing essay from August 2013 along with a new poem from yesterday, June 1, 2014, called "Water Cave Near Mogollon Rim" about a place I visited in Arizona.
- [Blonde Mermaid Caught by Orcas Island](https://climhub.org/blonde-mermaid-caught-by-orcas-island/): I caught this mermaid while trolling off Orcas Island.
- [Eight of My Clay Pieces, Good for the Next Two Ice Ages, and Last Week's Melting Antarctic Glacier News](https://climhub.org/eight-of-my-clay-pieces-good-for-next/): Because of monetary belief, a few humans will soon decide the fate of Earth’s people, sea creatures, animals, forests, meadows, mountains, reefs, and islands.
- [This video has great Oregon scenery and an important perspective on climate change.](https://climhub.org/this-video-has-great-oregon-scenery-and/)
- [Practicing "the Speech"](https://climhub.org/practicing-speech/): One of the best spring salmon fishermen on a river I visit gave me "the speech" to get out of trouble with a girlfriend. "I am sorry. It was my mistake.
- [Seattle's Monarch Review Published My Eco-Poem "Thinking About AWP 2014 in Seattle"](https://climhub.org/seattles-monarch-review-published-my/)
- [Fisher-in-Residence on Cascade Head](https://climhub.org/fisher-in-residence-on-cascade-head/): Some of the poems were written at The Sitka Center for Art and Ecology in Oregon.
- [Fish or Cut Bait or Teach](https://climhub.org/fish-or-cut-bait-or-teach/): Photo by John Campbell. Click photo to see text.
- [Spring Chinook in April 2014](https://climhub.org/spring-chinook-in-april-2014/): Here is my first spring chinook of April 2014.
- [The Godfather Box and the Net of Indra](https://climhub.org/the-godfather-box-and-net-of-indra/): I know there is some kind of synchronicity in the universe. The Hindu concept of the Net of Indra was right about that.
- [I'll Be Signing River Walker and The Other History Books at AWP 2014 in Seattle](https://climhub.org/ill-be-signing-river-walker-and-other/): The good folks at The Raven Chronicles invited me to sign my books at their J29 table on Thursday, February 27, 2014, from 3 p.m.
- [Remembering the 2013 Humpy Invasion](https://climhub.org/remembering-2013-humpy-invasion/): Brought by the moon and high tide, swarms of pink salmon arrived in July to shouts of men and women up and down the beach casting with joy of sea-abundance like 20 or 30 thousand years ago.
- [Two for the Road](https://climhub.org/two-for-road/): This steelhead took the first bait.
- [Dollies and Hen Steelhead](https://climhub.org/dollies-and-hen-steelhead/): Bobber in the sweet spot (click to enlarge photos).
- [January in Oregon](https://climhub.org/january-in-oregon/): Thanks to Rain Magazine at Clatsop Cummunity College for permission to reprint my poem, and to artist Kim Taylor for use of her edited photo.
- [December Coastal Creek Steelhead](https://climhub.org/december-coastal-creek-steelhead/): A few days ago, I caught these two hatchery steelhead chromers on a coastal creek.
- [John Muir, Melting Sea Stars, Fukushima, and William Stafford](https://climhub.org/john-muir-melting-sea-stars-fukushima/): I ran The Starfisher in Depoe Bay, Oregon.
- [The Good News, the Bad News, and the Mystery](https://climhub.org/the-good-news-bad-news-and-mystery/): On May 30, 2012, Freelance Health Journalist Harriet Sugar-Miller reported in her article, "Salmon Says: Should you Worry about Radiation in your Wild Pacific Fish?"
- [Fukushima Fish in the Pacific Northwest?](https://climhub.org/fukushima-fish/): Suz and I planned to harvest razor clams on the Washington coast until I reflected on the North Pacific Current possibly delivering pockets of Fukushima radioactive iodine-131, cesium-137, and strontium-90 to the Alaska Current, then north to our Washington coastline.
- [This Hood Canal chum took a green spinner.](https://climhub.org/this-hood-canal-chum-took-green-spinner/)
- [The Other History . . .](https://climhub.org/the-other-history/): Click Here to Buy The Other History .
- [Summer Steelhead in Eastern Oregon (Taking time to find many steelhead, no people.)](https://climhub.org/summer-steelhead-in-eastern-oregon/)
- [Wendell Berry on His Hopes for Humanity -- October 4, 2013 (40-minutes)](https://climhub.org/wendell-berry-on-his-hopes-for-humanity/)
- [Silver, Pink Salmon, and Raven Class](https://climhub.org/silver-pink-salmon-and-raven-class/): Yesterday, a few hours before I caught my shuttle for my flight to San Diego, I caught a nice silver and pink salmon 10 minutes from my house on Whidbey Island.
- [NRDC Mercury Calculator (Salmon looks safer than most.)](https://climhub.org/nrdc-mercury-calculator/)
- [](https://climhub.org/here-is-colorful-munchkin-i-caught-in/): Here is a colorful Munchkin I caught in the Blue Mountains of Eastern Oregon last summer on a size 24 hare's ear twirling acrobatic wombat.
- [New Way to Test Reel Drag](https://climhub.org/new-way-to-test-reel-drag/): This is Toby, my Jack Russell, sans dorsal fin, pectoral fins, and tail.
- ["Metabolism of Stars"](https://climhub.org/metabolism-of-stars/): "Metabolism of Stars" was the line I remember from poet/fisherman Ted Hughes describing the silvery side of a steelhead he had just caught.
- [](https://climhub.org/blog-post/): At Mountains and Rivers Press for $12.00 plus $2 postage (preferred); Powells; Solstice in Bingen, WA; The Fishery in Pacific Beach, CA; Columbia River Gallery; or The Sausage Kitchen in Gladstone, Oregon.
- [My Website at Directory of Poets and Writers](https://climhub.org/my-website-at-directory-of-poets-and/): Click here to go to my Website for Bio, Reviews, Recordings, and Interviews.
- ["Climate change: Top 10 things you should know" in Nov. 15, 2017, IRISH TIMES, and Climtalk.com](https://climhub.org/climate-change-top-10-things-you-should/): "Climate change: Top 10 things you should know" in Nov.
- [I Don't Want to Rock the Boat of Industrial Civilization. I Want to Capsize It](https://climhub.org/i-dont-want-to-rock-boat-of-industrial/): with a focus on sustainability.
- [Beware of Grandma (most creative property sign)](https://climhub.org/beware-of-grandma-most-creative-no/): Wading an Oregon coastal river, I saw a property sign "Beware of Grandma." I couldn't stop smiling.
- [Earth Rent [Paid]? Well, No](https://climhub.org/earth-rent-paid-well-no/): San Diego Mesa College Library. The class will be offered again Fall 2018.
- [“If we lose the Arctic, we lose the globe.” -- President Niinistö of Finland in Joint Press Conference with President Trump, August 28, 2017](https://climhub.org/if-we-lose-arctic-we-lose-globe/): “The artist's intentions for the work are explained by a banderol spiralling around an extinguished candle, in the lower right corner.
- [Sabertooth Salmon?](https://climhub.org/sabertooth-salmon/): Someone left this monstrosity in one of my favorite salmon holes. A sabertooth salmon?
- [North Atlantic / Southwestern United States' Archaeological Records Show Flexibility + Resiliency = Survival](https://climhub.org/north-atlantic-southwestern-united/): 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.
- [Warning from climate scientist, Dr. Veerabhaadran Ramanathan (Distinguished Professor-Scripps Institution Of Oceanography, UC San Diego & UNESCO Professor Of Climate & Policy, TERI University, New Delhi, India)](https://climhub.org/warning-from-climate-scientist-dr/): Thank you to the 138 visitors from South Korea October 14.
- ["Communicating climate change through poetry" (Yale Climate Connections Interview)](https://climhub.org/communicating-climate-change-through/): Image graphic: Created by David McCarthy (Hawk on Wire book cover and promo video screen capture).
- [Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria, and Weather in Washington, D. C.](https://climhub.org/hurricanes-harvey-irma-and-maria-and/): Last night in class someone asked if climate change caused recent hurricanes. Scientists agree the answer is no.
- [Thoughts and Prayers for the People of Florida](https://climhub.org/thoughts-and-prayers-for-people-of/): 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.
- [The Black Knight and Climate Change](https://climhub.org/the-black-knight-and-climate-change/): It looks like the planet has had enough of us, or maybe most of us. Those crying climate scientists are starting to make sense.
- [Houston Food Bank](https://climhub.org/huston-food-bank/): Some readers may want to know how to help those most affected by Hurricane Harvey. There are many good organizations.
- [Venus II or Eden II?](https://climhub.org/venus-ii-or-eden-ii/): Venus II or Eden II? "What can we do about climate change?" someone asked me again yesterday. Start here.
- [Rumi's Poem "An Empty Garlic" from about 740 Years Ago is like Our Outdated Carbon Addiction](https://climhub.org/in-rumis-poem-empty-garlic-from-about/): (Used with permission of translator Coleman Barks, author of The Essential Rumi, p. 50) Another great Rumi poem is "The Snake-Catcher’s Tale."
- [Hawk on Wire: Ecopoems Book Launch at Vanguard Culture May 2, 2017](https://climhub.org/hawk-on-wire-ecopoems-book-launch-at/): 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.
- [Hawk on Wire Published by Fomite Press in Vermont](https://climhub.org/hawk-on-wire-published-by-fomite-press/): for "the most thought-provoking books." It is available at Amazon.com or BN.com. The Kindle price is $4.99.
- [Oregon Springers](https://climhub.org/oregon-springers/): Car top egg cure.
- [Senator Sheldon Whitehouse's 5 Minute Apr. 26, 2017 Video "Politics of Climate Change [Citizens United]"](https://climhub.org/senator-sheldon-whitehouses-video-time/): Used with permission of Bizarro.com.
- [Uh-Oh, "Columbia spring run prediction sliced in half" according to Oregonlive.com](https://climhub.org/uh-oh-columbia-spring-run-prediction/): to an entire run.
- ["Run Like Hell" -- Pink Floyd](https://climhub.org/run-like-hell-pink-floyd/): and she has ice water up her butt.
- [Power of the Red Vest](https://climhub.org/power-of-red-vest/): • TOLES © 2017 The Washington Post.
- ["No size restrictions and screw the limit."  -- Far Side Cartoon](https://climhub.org/no-size-restrictions-and-screw-limit/): 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."
- [San Diego Book Launch of Hawk on Wire: Ecopoems](https://climhub.org/san-diego-book-launch-of-hawk-on-wire/)
- [In the Fewest Possible Words . . . .](https://climhub.org/in-fewest-possible-words/): Here is my article about the Valve Turners risking "prison sentences up to 51 years for coordinated actions which, according to former lawyer / current Valve Turner Annette Klapstein, 'shut down all the major tar sands pipelines coming into the US across four states, in solidarity with [ .
- [Oregon naturalist/writer Tim Fox will speak at Mesa College Friday, Feb. 24](https://climhub.org/blog-post_3/): I invited Oregon naturalist/writer Tim Fox to speak at Mesa College Friday, Feb. 24, at 6:30 p.m.
- [Why I Support Standing Rock Sioux's Nonviolent Protest Against Energy Transfer Partners' Dakota Access Pipeline](https://climhub.org/why-i-support-standing-rock-siouxs/): The past two terms, students asked why I support Standing Rock Sioux's nonviolent protest against Energy Transfer Partners' Dakota Access Pipeline.
- [What Happens When You Tell Your Wife She Can't Go Fishing](https://climhub.org/what-happens-when-you-tell-your-wife/): Raced to lace boots, run and photograph frost moon over alders, but it was gone.
- [Case of the Flying Steelhead](https://climhub.org/the-case-of-flying-steelhead/): Suz set the hook so hard I had to get a ladder to find her steelhead on the roof (top photo). A brief thaw allowed more river time.
- [Winter Mermaid and Gretzky Steelhead](https://climhub.org/winter-mermaid-and-gretzky-steelhead/): Maybe behind that rock.
- [Two of My Favorite Things About Christmas: Steelhead and Steelhead](https://climhub.org/two-of-my-favorite-things-about/)
- [Winter Steel](https://climhub.org/winter-steel/): I went to renew my Washington fishing license, and asked the girl at the sporting goods store, Kate, if she could also renew my marriage license since I had been fishing so much.
- [Climate Change is Not a Republican, Democrat, Green, or Libertarian Issue; It's a Human Issue](https://climhub.org/climate-change-is-not-republican/): Hats off to the wise 66.5 percent of Oregon people for passing Measure 99, an “Outdoor School Education Fund” supported by Oregon Lottery.
- [Before the Flood, DiCaprio's Climate Change Documentary, Will Be Free for a Week Starting Oct. 30](https://climhub.org/before-flood-dicaprios-climate-change/): DiCaprio used Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights as a metaphor for human-caused climate change.
- [Allegedly Edible Fungi, Chasing Ice, and Hurricane Sandy](https://climhub.org/edible-fungi-chasing-ice-and-hurricane/): Fall in Oregon is mushroom season. Above is a table of lobsters, chanterelles, porcini, and assorted.
- [Yellowtail in Mexico, and Climate Questions / Answers](https://climhub.org/yellowtail-in-mexico-and-climate/): Yesterday I enjoyed catching seven yellowtail (kept four) on the Tribute which had excellent deckhands and fine captains.
- [The Art of the Raft](https://climhub.org/the-art-of-raft/): Thanks to Northwest Fishing Reports for publishing my article "The Art of the Raft."
- [Last Day Fish](https://climhub.org/last-day-fish/): Right before I left Washington and Oregon to teach creative writing in San Diego, a summer steelie ignited my spinner.
- [Lost Salmon (Published),  Hawk on Wire: Ecopoems (Fomite Will Publish in 2017), A Creek I Never Fished (Started)](https://climhub.org/lost-salmon-published-chewaucan-wars/): My new book of fishing/eco-poems from MoonPath arrived. Click here to order.
- [Desert Time Machine](https://climhub.org/desert-time-machine/): I found desert creeks with healthy redsides. I had to drive forever but didn't see another angler.
- [PLAYA Climate Change Discussion July 7, 2016](https://climhub.org/playa-climate-change-discussion-july-7/): Jason Box, Greenland ice climatologist and professor at The Geologic Survey of Denmark, said at PLAYA two nights ago out of the ten possible scenarios on climate change, nine result in loss of society as we know it.
- [Climate Change Residency at PLAYA](https://climhub.org/climate-change-residency-at-playa/): My cabin for the month of July.
- [Nary a Fish Gets Past Honey Goat](https://climhub.org/nary-fish-makes-it-past-honey-goat/): Two we caught yesterday.
- [Chrome Spring Chinook](https://climhub.org/chrome-spring-chinook/): The Mermaid's fish below was 19 pounds. Mine above appears larger.
- [The Problem With Showing Your Wife Your Springer Spots](https://climhub.org/the-problem-with-showing-your-wife-your/)
- [Three More](https://climhub.org/three-more/)
- [Submarine Prompt and "Arctic Methane: Why The Sea Ice Matters" (YouTube)](https://climhub.org/submarine-prompt-and-arctic-methane-why/): For about 27 years, my developmental writing students have enjoyed the following prompt: "Imagine you are in a sub in the North Atlantic, in WWII, which has been hit by a torpedo.
- [Anti-Nuclear / Climate Change Reading in Mobius Art Gallery at Cascadia College](https://climhub.org/anti-nuclear-climate-change-reading-in/): April 26 I read with Kathleen Flenniken, former Washington State Poet Laureate, Nancy Dickeman, Ellie Belew, and Chelsea Bolan at the Particles on the Wall Exhibit which featured our work in the gallery.
- [Spring Chinook, Book, and Climate Updates](https://climhub.org/spring-chinook-book-and-climate-updates/): Northwest Fishing Reports published my article "Catching Spring Chinook."
- [How to Outfit a Fish Car (Humor article)](https://climhub.org/how-to-outfit-fish-car-humor-article/): Thanks to Mike Carey, editor at Northwest Fishing Reports, for posting my humor article "How to Outfit a Fish Car."
- [The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) Post of Industrial Oz: Ecopoems](https://climhub.org/the-association-for-study-of-literature/): Thanks to ASLE for their post on my new book Industrial Oz: Ecopoems.
- [Fishing With Henry Hughes](https://climhub.org/fishing-with-henry-hughes/): I recently enjoyed fishing with the strong writer and angler Henry Hughes, author of forthcoming Bunch of Animals and angling memoir Back Seat with Fish.
- [Sea Lice on Fresh Steelhead](https://climhub.org/sea-lice-on-fresh-steelhead/): I caught another two chromers this morning with sea lice.
- [Steelblue Hens](https://climhub.org/steelblue-hens/): Here are two steelblue hens I caught this morning fresh from the salt.
- [Suz failed all of her classes at Wife School](https://climhub.org/suz-failed-all-of-her-classes-at-wife/): Suz caught this fisherman in Canada.
- [Three Reflections on COP21 (Paris Climate Summit)](https://climhub.org/three-reflections-on-cop21-paris/): 1) Regarding calories, one push up, no matter how carefully monitored, does not equal five cheesecakes.
- [You Too Can Depress Family, Friends, and Coworkers](https://climhub.org/you-too-can-depress-family-friends-and/): by sharing my new book of eco-reality from Amazon, the publisher, or local bookseller.
- ["UN on wrong track with plans to limit global warming to 2C, says top scientist [James Hansen]" -- The Guardian](https://climhub.org/un-on-wrong-track-with-plans-to-limit/): "Might makes right" has worked for politicians for thousands of years, but not this time. Hansen is right in noting " [ .
- [At Playa's Artist Retreat in Southeast Oregon](https://climhub.org/at-playas-artist-retreat-in-southeast/): I'm enjoying two wonderful weeks at Playa, working on my next book Lost Salmon, hiking the area, looking at rivers and lakes, and meeting resident artists and writers.
- [Cowspiracy](https://climhub.org/cowspiracy/): Tonight I watched Cowspiracy which showed industrial-scale animal agriculture may be a much bigger problem regarding climate change, species extinction, loss of rain forest, world hunger, and human diseases than I thought.
- [Industrial Oz](https://climhub.org/industrial-oz_19/): My new book is available from Fomite Press in Vermont.
- [Fishing Rod Insurance](https://climhub.org/fishing-rod-insurance/): Fishing rod insurance is only $67 a year which is entirely reasonable since I spend more time with it than any humans.
- [Think Like a Fish](https://climhub.org/think-like-fish/): Thanks to Mike Carey, editor at Northwest Fishing Reports, for publishing my humor articles "Think Like a Fish" and "Combat Fishing."
- [The Only Thing Better Than One Fish, One Mermaid, is a Mermaid With a Fish](https://climhub.org/the-only-thing-better-than-one-fish-one/)
- [One Fish, One Mermaid](https://climhub.org/one-fish-one-mermaid/)
- [Coho Have Arrived](https://climhub.org/coho-have-arrived/): I'm super angry at Suzette. In our prenuptial agreement it clearly says "Shall not use Scott's fishing rod or share his secret bait cures .
- [Mermaid Photo and San Juan Kayak Trip](https://climhub.org/mermaid-photo-and-san-juan-kayak-trip/): for spectacular leaps. She took this photo with her phone.
- [Think Pink](https://climhub.org/think-pink/): hers look bigger.
- [ADABoats.com Makes Lakes Wheelchair Accessible for Disabled Veterans and Others](https://climhub.org/adaboatscom-makes-lakes-wheelchair/): Click above to see an "ADA Boats Review" by Mike Carey of Northwest Fishing Reports trolling Lake Stevens north of Seattle for kokanee.
- [Then and Now](https://climhub.org/then-and-now/): Suz and I had a big fight.
- [Now is the time to remove the lower four Snake River dams.](https://climhub.org/now-is-time-to-remove-lower-four-snake/): See the 7 min. film Remove the Dams to Save the Salmon? selected by National Geographic editors and showcased at National Geographic Society.
- [Rivers Cooking Salmon, EU Cooking Greeks](https://climhub.org/rivers-cooking-salmon-eu-cooking-greeks/): With rivers heating way above normal and falling to never before seen water levels, now is a good time to ocean fish.
- [Sockeye Madness](https://climhub.org/sockeye-madness/): I read somewhere variety of diet is important so I took a day off from chinook fishing to go sockeye fishing.
- [Small Water Salmon](https://climhub.org/small-water-salmon/): Hooking big fish in small water was described by a friend as "fighting a gorilla in a storage unit."
- [If You Love This Planet, See Rob Stewart's Revolution](https://climhub.org/if-you-love-this-planet-see-rob/): The authenticity of Rob Stewart's film making, historical perspective, accurate knowledge, and list of victories won by activists make Revolution an essential film.
- [Three for the Road](https://climhub.org/three-for-road/): At sunrise I caught two adults and a 23 and 1/2 inch jack. A Bavarian tape measure with a double 22 inch mark was handy.
- [Finding May Salmon](https://climhub.org/more-may-salmon_33/): New friends arrive daily from the sea. My 4-year-old nephew said "Fish are friends, not food." from watching Finding Nemo 47 times with my brother.
- [More May Salmon](https://climhub.org/more-may-salmon/): I caught this 17 pounder and 8 pounder. The great thing about springers is both cut beet red.
- [May Salmon](https://climhub.org/may-salmon/): My first day back in Oregon my river friends were waiting.
- [Books Push Back](https://climhub.org/books-push-back/): Twice in the past month writers asked to see my new book Industrial Oz coming out before the Paris Climate Conference in December. "Word or PDF?" I asked.
- [Monday Report](https://climhub.org/monday-report/): My first springer of 2015 caught March 30.
- [Jinxed](https://climhub.org/jinxed/): Friday I sat fishless on a rock in a rainstorm trying to understand exactly what I did wrong. Then I saw my sweater was on backwards. That explained it.
- [Slomo Saves His Life](https://climhub.org/slomo-saves-his-life/): I pass Slomo about 4 times a week on my beach walks.
- [Finally, the Fishing Movie, A Deliberate Life, is Available, and Lost Salmon](https://climhub.org/finally-fishing-movie-deliberate-life/): If you love fishing, you may want to watch this trailer of A Deliberate Life.
- [Activist and Fishing Books at 3 Good Books](https://climhub.org/activist-and-fishing-books-at-3-good/): Thanks to Drew Myron for interviewing me at 3 Good Books regarding my interest in activist poetry.
- [Tree Deco, Elk, and Saving Sea Turtles](https://climhub.org/tree-deco-elk-and-saving-sea-turtles/): During the holidays, fishermen decorate trees with bad casts.
- [One Arming It in the Coast Range](https://climhub.org/one-arming-it-in-coast-range/): Washington and Oregon steelheaders wait in icy dark for this, one joyful day at a time.
- [Calling in to Work Well](https://climhub.org/calling-in-to-work-well/): "My personal motto has always been: Joy in spite of everything. Not just [mindless] joy, but joy in spite of everything.
- [Steelhead and Gremlin Cities](https://climhub.org/steelhead-and-gremlin-cities/): Gremlin cites. They are good at hiding.
- [The Case of Mad Steelhead and Slides](https://climhub.org/the-case-of-mad-steelhead-and/): I caught these two steelhead by 8 a.m. yesterday so I looked for the so-called "Slide Area."
- ["All's Well That Ends Well, Mostly"](https://climhub.org/alls-well-that-ends-well-old-mostly/): This is the dreaded wooka hooka wae wombat track. These guys crawl from brush to steal your steelhead.
- [New Owner: No Trespassing Except for Blondes](https://climhub.org/new-owner-no-trespassing-except-for/): "New Owner: No Trespassing Except for Blondes" was the sign over one of my best holes on seldom-fished Secret River, and it was enough to quake my Reeboks.
- [Healing Time](https://climhub.org/healing-time/): Three days after grading a mountain of papers, I was back in Oregon. The World Lit.
- [Ain't Nothin' Like Summer in Late November](https://climhub.org/aint-nothin-like-summer-in-late-november/): Iner, I think I found some fish (whisper).
- [Remembering Ross on Veterans Day](https://climhub.org/remembering-ross-on-veterans-day/): A half-blind Korean War vet, Ross, took me trolling on the Willamette Channel to catch my first salmon there.
- [Woola Woola Scores Again](https://climhub.org/woola-woola-scores-again/): An October rainbow road means good luck fishin', and it was.
- [Tillamook, Greenland](https://climhub.org/tillamook-greenland/): 3 Clackamas steelies I caught in 1979.
- [Remembering the Clackamas](https://climhub.org/remembering-clackamas/): My Winter Steelhead Ritual above Carver Boat Launch donated to White Wolf Sanctuary in Tidewater, OR.
- [Rivers of a Lost Coast](https://climhub.org/rivers-of-lost-coast/): I watched Rivers of a Lost Coast tonight.
- [Fallchinookville](https://climhub.org/fallchinookville/): Here is a big guy I caught on an Oregon coastal river.
- [Bad News, Good News, However . . .](https://climhub.org/bad-news-good-news-however/): 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!
- [Epic of Gilgamesh and Climate Change](https://climhub.org/epic-of-gilgamesh-and-ciimate-change/): “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.
- [Free Showing of The Reluctant Radical on May 1, 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., G101, San Diego Mesa College](https://climhub.org/free-showing-of-reluctant-radical-on/): Click for film trailer.
- [Solution to Reducing Climate Change is Purple](https://climhub.org/solution-to-reducing-climate-change-is/): Thank you to readers from 70 countries (see 8 posts down at bottom of "Arctic Methane Debate Rages On").
- [Where's the Love?](https://climhub.org/wheres-love/): 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?"
- [Two Literary Quotes That Fit Reducing Climate Disruption](https://climhub.org/two-literary-quotes-that-fit-reducing/): "Somehow -- in spite of all the madness, all the stupidity -- somehow the thing could be done."
- ["Can we hack climate change to save us all?" | Foreign Correspondent, ABC News (Australia) 2/26/19](https://climhub.org/can-we-hack-climate-change-to-save-us/): 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.
- [A Feb. 23, 2019 Dahr Jamail Interview with Chris Hedges in On Contact](https://climhub.org/a-feb-23-2019-dahr-jamail-interview/)
- [William Happer was Refuted by Michael C. MacCracken in 2011](https://climhub.org/william-happer-was-refuted-by-michael-c/): 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.
- [Recalling Cobain, Bowie, and Prophetic Power of Art](https://climhub.org/recalling-cobain-bowie-and-prophetic/): Today, I'm recalling Cobain, Bowie, and prophetic power of art. U.S. politicians think they are better scientists than scientists.
- ["Why we need to rethink climate change, with Timothy Morton – books podcast, [The Guardian]"](https://climhub.org/why-we-need-to-rethink-climate-change/): 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.
- [Arctic Methane Debate Rages On](https://climhub.org/arctic-methane-debate-rages-on-with/): Updates Feb. 12, 2019, April 2019, and June 2019 are below.
- [Carbonfish Blues Published with 78 Poems by Scott T. Starbuck, and 12 Artworks by Guy Denning](https://climhub.org/carbonfish-blues-published-with-78/): 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.
- [A Secret Fishing Spot on the Oregon Coast](https://climhub.org/at-secret-fishing-spot-on-oregon-coast/): Yesterday I remembered Slim Bracken, lifelong logger and one of my best fishing buds who died recently after falling off his bike.
- [With Joy and Sadness I Write This . . .](https://climhub.org/with-joy-and-sadness-i-write-this/): Joy: Northwest Fishing Reports published my latest article, "The Slide Technique," and between now and April 30 I should catch another 20 to 30 steelhead if it's a normal year.
- [The Guardian: "'Our leaders are like children,' school strike founder tells climate summit"](https://climhub.org/the-guardian-our-leaders-are-like/): July 27, 2019 updated video below (first video).
- ["Born Was the Mountain" by Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder in Emergence Magazine](https://climhub.org/born-was-mountain-by-chelsea-steinauer/): This morning I read one of my favorite articles about Hawai'i which is also a podcast.
- ["Thousands of [Australian] students join climate protest"](https://climhub.org/thousands-of-australian-students-join/)
- [Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, Masters of Advanced Studies in Climate Science and Policy (MAS CSP) Early Consideration Deadline is January 8, 2019](https://climhub.org/scripps-institution-of-oceanography-uc/): Corey J. Gabriel, Ph.D., J.D., the Program's Executive Director, wrote "Basically, we are training students to have a strong grounding in both policy and climate science to then go into local, state and national climate policy (and energy, environment al etc.)
- [The Guardian: "Climate change 'will inflict substantial damages on US lives'"](https://climhub.org/the-guardian-climate-change-will/): It's like we're on a ship headed for a bleached coral reef, and scientists and activists are unable to persuade captains to change course to avoid major impact that will increase suffering beyond what these captains, and publics they serve, can imagine.
- [Yale Climate Connections: "How do I break bad news about climate change?"](https://climhub.org/yale-climate-connections-how-do-i-break/): Many of my friends and colleagues wish I read this article long ago. As with climate solutions, better late than never.
- [November 13 California Fires Update](https://climhub.org/november-13-california-fires-update/)
- [losangeles.cbslocal.com: "Woolsey Fire [ . . .]  Forces Evacuation Of 265,000"](https://climhub.org/cnbccom-more-than-250000-people-in/): losangeles.cbslocal.com: "Woolsey Fire [ .
- [Bill McKibben: "At least five people burned to death in their cars trying to flee CA [Camp Fire] inferno."](https://climhub.org/bill-mckibben-at-least-five-people/): Bill McKibben's Twitter page offers some of the best climate updates. Today I saw his update about California's Butte County Fire now known as the Camp Fire.
- [Defeat of Washington Initiative 1631 (Carbon Tax)](https://climhub.org/defeat-of-washington-initiative-1631/): At least when Titanic hit the iceberg, lifeboats left about half full.
- [Washington Post: "Supreme Court refuses to block young people’s climate lawsuit against U.S. government"](https://climhub.org/washington-post-supreme-court-refuses/): Robert Barnes and Brady Dennis reported in The Washingon Post "the Supreme Court on Friday night refused to halt a novel lawsuit filed by young Americans that attempts to force the federal government to take action on climate change, turning down a request from the Trump administration to stop it [10 days] before trial."
- [TASS Reports Russian Scientists Found "Massive" New Arctic Methane Emissions](https://climhub.org/tass-reports-russian-scientists-found/): TASS, noted by Wiki as "the largest Russian news agency and one of the largest news agencies worldwide," reported today newly discovered increase in Arctic methane emissions "may affect the planet’s climate system."
- [After Saying "Yes," U. S. Supreme Court Says Maybe No to Children’s Trust Climate Lawsuit 10 Days Before Trial](https://climhub.org/after-saying-yes-u-s-supreme-court-says/): I recall driving near Chehalis, WA, thinking Juliana v. US was Earth's last best chance.
- [Hipcamp -- A Letter to Congress, Wallace Stegner, 1960](https://climhub.org/hipcamp-letter-to-congress-wallace/): Now, if you're not fighting for it globally, you're not fighting for it locally.
- [Trump, Putin, and Muller Speak on Climate](https://climhub.org/presidents-trump-and-putin-speak-on/): My response? See the video below.
- [Prayer, Meditation, Rice](https://climhub.org/prayer-meditation-rice/): Last year, it was Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria; damaged islands of Barbuda and Puerto Rico; fires in California, British Columbia, Oregon, Montana, Sibera, Greece, Sweden, Portugal, and Spain; and millions enduring floods in Bangladesh (widely reported as 1/3 underwater), Peru, Nepal, India, China, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Canada, Iran, Norway, England, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, Vietnam, Zimbabwe, and other places.
- ["Climate Scientist: As U.N. Warns of Global Catastrophe, We Need a 'Marshall Plan' for Climate Change" (Democracy Now! Video)](https://climhub.org/climate-scientist-as-un-warns-of-global/): Professor Kevin Anderson answers question "What does the future look like? How bad can things get if we proceed on this course?"
- [Another Poem & Image from Hoffman Center in Manzanita, Oregon](https://climhub.org/another-word-image-poem-from-hoffman/): Thanks to fellow fisher / writer Cameron Pierce and artist Barbara Temple Ayres for allowing me to post their work above.
- [Word & Image Show At Hoffman Center in Manzanita, Oregon](https://climhub.org/word-image-show-at-hoffman-center-in/): Last night I enjoyed reading at The Word and Image Show at The Hoffman Center in Manzanita, Oregon.
- [Hope in the Blast Zone](https://climhub.org/hope-in-blast-zone/): I just returned from Blue River Writers Gathering sponsored by the Spring Creek Project at Oregon State University. The Gathering was at H.J.
- ["Shell and Exxon's secret 1980s climate change warnings," and The Yes Men](https://climhub.org/shell-and-exxons-secret-1980s-climate/): Today at The Guardian Benjamin Franta wrote in an article "Shell and Exxon's secret 1980s climate change warnings," "Looking on the bright side, [Shell] expressed its confidence that 'this problem is not as significant to mankind as a nuclear holocaust or world famine.'
- ["Make joy no matter what."](https://climhub.org/make-joy-no-matter-what/): I took a break from climate posts so my nephew Kaige and I could fish off Mexico. In two trips we caught bluefin, yellowfin, and yellowtail.
- [Ocean Heat, CO2, Super Typhoon Mangkhut, Hurricane Florence, and North Carolina / Florida Climate Politics](https://climhub.org/ocean-heat-co2-hurricane-florence-and/): "Ocean heat content (OHC) and CO2 concentration measurements since 1950s.
- [Rising for Orca & Climate Justice, and Save the Salish Sea Event on Sept. 15, 2018](https://climhub.org/rising-for-orca-climate-justice-and/): In a related matter, click this article from The Spokesman-Review by Eli Francovich noting "'The orcas are going to die if we don’t breach the [Snake River] dams,' said Chiara Rose, a student at Western Washington University in Bellingham.
- [Sept. 8, 2018, Rise for Climate, Jobs and Justice in Portland, Oregon, and THE RELUCTANT RADICAL  Film Sept. 12, 7 p.m. in Whitsell Auditorium, Portland Art Museum](https://climhub.org/sept-8-2018-rise-for-climate-jobs-and/): Yesterday I attended 350PDX's Climate, Jobs and Justice event at Glenhaven City Park in Portland, Oregon.
- [Mass Hypnosis of United States' Policy Regarding Climate Change](https://climhub.org/mass-hypnosis-of-united-states-policy/): The Atlantic and other publications noted in 2017 the United States is the only country on Earth opposing the Paris Climate Agreement.
- [Jeff Goodell at Rolling Stone: "The Melting Arctic Is a Real-Time Horror Story — Why Doesn’t Anyone Care?"](https://climhub.org/jeff-goodell-at-rolling-stone-melting/): Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stone contributing editor and author of The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World, has an excellent article about specific challenges with Arctic melt you won't hear in many mainstream news sources.
- [Titanic Earth Sinks While Tom Perez and the DNC Help Sink It](https://climhub.org/titanic-earth-sinks-while-tom-perez-and/): August 28, 2018, Lukas Ross, an opinion contributor at Thehill.com, reported,"Just two months ago, the DNC voted unanimously to refuse donations from political action committees, or PACs, run by fossil fuel corporations [ .
- [Schellnhuber: "Rising Seas Could Affect 1.4 Billion People by 2060"](https://climhub.org/schellnhuber-rising-seas-could-affect/): Schellnhuber: "Were not talking about a million people seeking refuge from Syria.
- ["In Germany we should focus everything on the phase out of coal." -- Hans Joachim Schellnhuber (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research)](https://climhub.org/in-germany-we-should-focus-everything/): This May 4th, 2018 discussion is clear-thinking, revealing, and wise.
- [Recent Monthly Average Mauna Loa CO2 (Stop adding major carbon releases now.)](https://climhub.org/recent-monthly-average-mauna-loa-co2/): For updates, click here. This is simple. As CO2 rises, the heat-trapping blanket over Earth thickens, and traps more heat.
- [SOURCE TO SEA: The Columbia River Swim by Christopher Swain](https://climhub.org/source-to-sea-columbia-river-swim-by/): Tonight I watched this excellent 2006 film about ancient and recent Columbia River History, and Christopher Swain's "13 month swim down it's 1243 mile length" to alert the public to the need to remove dams, clean up Hanford Nuclear Site, and preserve the river, and salmon, for future people.
- [The Analog Sea Review -- AN OFFLINE JOURNAL](https://climhub.org/the-analog-sea-review-offline-journal/): I was enjoying this new journal so much, I recently took it instead of my laptop to the coffee shop.
- [Bigger Trouble Now: "Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene" Published by National Academy of Sciences (NAS)](https://climhub.org/bigger-trouble-now-trajectories-of/): Click here for a 3-minute video about the report.
- [Trouble Now](https://climhub.org/trouble-now/): This Spiraling Salmon by Jim Demetro is on Salmon Run Bell Tower in Vancouver, WA.
- [Oxford Climate Physicist Raymond Pierrehumbert Calls Scientists' "Hail Mary" Idea "Barking Mad"](https://climhub.org/oxford-climate-physicist-raymond/): Read Joel Achenbach's August 8, 2018, Washington Post article here.
- [Three Reasons to Fight Climate Breakdown: Wife, Rivers, Fish. What Are Yours?](https://climhub.org/three-reasons-to-fight-climate/): Thanks to visitors this month from United States, Russia, Germany, Portugal, Ukraine, France, South Korea, Australia, Mexico, Brazil, United Kingdom, Netherlands, and Romania.
- [My Reply to Nathaniel Rich's NYT Magazine Article "Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change"](https://climhub.org/my-response-to-nathaniel-richs-nyt/): Nathaniel Rich quotes: "crimes against humanity" and "moral vision of industry .
- [19-year-old Victoria Barrett to Scott Wagner, Pennsylvania candidate for governor who called someone like her "Naive": "You're the naive one."](https://climhub.org/19-year-old-victoria-barrett-to-scott/): Barrett's open letter in yesterday's Guardian is here.
- [Horse Ring Across from People's Co-op in Portland, OR](https://climhub.org/horse-ring-across-from-peoples-mkt-in/): Transportation of past and future.
- ["Is climate change causing the worldwide heatwave?" ITV News](https://climhub.org/is-climate-change-causing-worldwide/)
- [These  11 to 22-year-olds Are Taking President Trump to Court Over Climate Change](https://climhub.org/these-11-to-22-year-olds-are-taking/): Many thanks to the Irish Examiner for this article explaining the legal case.
- [Fast-wind Fires in N. California and Greece Strain Planning and Resources](https://climhub.org/fast-wind-fires-in-n-california-and/): "The deadly fire in the city of Redding, three hours north of San Francisco and near the Oregon border, was only around 5% contained having grown overnight by 35% to 127 square miles."
- [Ludovico Einaudi - "Elegy for the Arctic" Video](https://climhub.org/ludovico-einaudi-elegy-for-arctic-video/): Thanks to blog visitors this week from United States, Ukraine, Russia, South Korea, United Arab Emirates, Germany, Denmark, France, Peru, United Kingdom, and Nigeria.
- [The Bad News, and Good News](https://climhub.org/strange-days-indeed-john-lennon/): Dallas "Record-setting July 19" at 108 F (Click to see melting crayon art video.)
- ["Montana's Famous Fly-Fishing Rivers Are Feeling the Heat of Climate Change" by Anna Belle Peevey](https://climhub.org/montanas-famous-fly-fishing-rivers-are/): This short film reminds me of the March 30, 2017 missoulanews.com article "Hooking fly fishers on climate change" by Alex Sakariassen.
- [CHESC 2018](https://climhub.org/chesc-2018/): I enjoyed presenting today at the annual CA Higher Education Sustainability Conference (CHESC) on the UC Santa Barbara campus.
- [Remembering Celilo Falls](https://climhub.org/remembering-celilo-film/): is about looking over her children.
- [RISE ABOVE PLASTICS Surfrider Foundation Sponsored Video Prompted by 17 Hawaiian Students (180,358 views  as of  7/1/18)](https://climhub.org/rise-above-plastics-surfrider/)
- [Summer Research](https://climhub.org/summer-research/): Here is my "Catching Spring Chinook" article from Northwest Fishing Reports in 2016.
- [Is a spring chinook under distant rainbow?](https://climhub.org/is-there-chinook-under-distant-rainbow/)
- [Climate Scientists Expressing Nightmare/Anger/Fear/Gratitude/Other Feelings](https://climhub.org/climate-scientists-expressing/): There are typed versions below letters.
- [Mark Twain Saw](https://climhub.org/mark-twain-saw/): August 10, 2018, Update from Yale Climate Connections: "But now, Antarctic glaciers are losing ice faster than they are gaining it [according to Hannes Konrad, part of a University of Leeds team studying this exact issue].
- [Time for Community-building, Preparation, Resiliency, Family](https://climhub.org/time-for-community-building-preparation/): Think Climate Change. Thanks to ASLE for posting updates about Hawk on Wire.
- [Dahr Jamail: Abrupt Climate Disruption & Navigating An Unstable Future](https://climhub.org/dahr-jamail-abrupt-climate-disruption/): August 20, 2018, Update from Dahr Jamail: "I’ve spoken to prestigious scientists both on and off the record who believe that sooner rather than later, global population will be reduced to around 1 billion humans."
- [weather.com: "Bering Sea Missing Almost 200,000 Square Miles of Ice [30 days early], Plunging Into Record Lows"; The Seattle Times: "Scientists were stunned."](https://climhub.org/weathercom-bering-sea-missing-almost/): Watch video here, and read The Seattle Times article here.
- [What is the Source of 2017s Increased Atmospheric Methane?](https://climhub.org/what-is-source-of-2017s-increased/): A 2014 article in Scientific American reported "Levels of the potent greenhouse gas continue to rise and scientists aren't sure where most of it is coming from, though likely suspects include fracking, increased coal mining in China and a melting Arctic."
- ["Troubling to the truly hair-raising" Methane Release Reported, says The Economist](https://climhub.org/troubling-to-truly-hair-raising-methane/): I am sometimes asked how bad climate change will get, and how fast. I don't know specifics.
- ["Why a paid climate doubter switched sides"  -- Yale Climate Connections](https://climhub.org/why-paid-climate-doubter-switched-sides/): "Jerry Taylor once worked for a libertarian think-tank, where he was paid to dispute the seriousness of climate change. Now he argues for climate action."
- [Toby and Springer](https://climhub.org/toby-and-springer/): April 21 brought my first springer of the season.
- [Big Oil vs Poetry](https://climhub.org/big-oil-vs-poetry/): The night before the stone in his forehead, Goliath had a terrible dream.
- [IS THERE A FISH IN THIS STORY?](https://climhub.org/is-there-fish-in-this-story/): Here is my fishing/climate change bumper sticker I designed at vistaprint.com in 6 minutes (Click Signs & Posters then Bumper Stickers.).
- ["[Chevron] representative says the oil industry accepts that humans are the driving force of global warming"](https://climhub.org/chevron-representative-says-oil/): On March 21 CBS San Francisco (CBS SF) reported in "Judge Calls For Tutorial While Hearing Climate Change Lawsuits" "the [Chevron] representative says the oil industry accepts that humans are the driving force of global warming but oil companies argue that they can't be held liable for emissions that are indeed government regulated."
- [Big Oil Knew: Part 1](https://climhub.org/big-oil-knew-part-1/): Update: "On Wednesday, a federal judge [ William Alsup] will hold a 'climate science tutorial' as part of San Francisco’s and Oakland’s nuisance cases against five oil giants for damages related to sea level rise" according to Ann Carlson and Peter C.
- [Former California Governor "Arnold Schwarzenegger Accuses Oil Companies Of Murder"](https://climhub.org/former-california-governor-arnold/)
- [Cornel West's Great Essay "Brother Martin Was a Blues Man"](https://climhub.org/cornel-wests-great-essay-brother-martin/): This morning I enjoyed Cornel West's great essay "Brother Martin Was a Blues Man" in Boston Review, which is also a podcast.
- [Climate Change Effects Are Local and Global](https://climhub.org/climate-change-effects-are-local-and/): © 2011 Ruth Wallen. All Rights Reserved.
- ["Warning System Down: California’s Deadliest Fires"](https://climhub.org/warning-system-down-californias/): Thich Nhat Hanh taught to focus on what is helpful.
- [The "Red Team, Blue Team" Climate Change Debate E. P. A. Chief Scott Pruitt Wanted, and White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly Rejected, was Clarified in a 2011 Debate, and Eco and Political Situations Have Grown Much Worse](https://climhub.org/the-red-team-blue-team-climate-change/): Click here for the 2011 debate.
- [While Mass Deaths of Animals Happened for Thousands of Years, Rapid Hot or Cold Climate Shifts Make Life Challenging](https://climhub.org/while-mass-deaths-of-animals-have/)
- [Is a human life worth $450 to you?](https://climhub.org/is-human-life-worth-450-to-you/): I went to hear "the Pope's advisers" on climate change March 2 at a UCSD panel called "Climate Change. What Can Be Done About It?"
- ["climate and weather events displaced more than 1 million Americans from their homes last year"](https://climhub.org/climate-and-weather-events-displaced/): I appreciated Rolling Stone contributing editor Jeff Goodell's recent article from which the quote above was taken.
- [Four Horsemen of Distraction vs Peace Pilgrim](https://climhub.org/four-horsemen-of-distraction-vs-peace/): and hatred with love."
- [Happer vs MacCracken](https://climhub.org/happer-vs-maccracken/): One of my longtime friends (47 years) sent me a Happer video disputing the ability of climate models "TO PREDICT THE FUTURE [overall] TEMPERATURE OF THE PLANET" due to too many variables, and too much unpredictability of direction over time.
- [WTF (What the Fish?)](https://climhub.org/wtf-what-fish/): In case you missed it, here is what President Trump said Jan.
- ["Rivers and Stories" by Robert Hass, and global oneness project](https://climhub.org/rivers-and-stories-by-robert-hass-and/): Today I read the excellent essay "Rivers and Stories" by Robert Hass.
- [Between Washington Rainstorms](https://climhub.org/between-washington-rainstorms/): I hate it when Suz outfishes me.
- [Climate Activists Need Balance](https://climhub.org/climate-activists-need-balance/): For balance, I enjoy time with my wife, dog, rivers, world literature classes, and creative writing classes.
- [[2017 was] "The Year Climate Change Began to Spin Out of Control" (MIT Technology Review) / ArtCenter SOUTH FLORIDA Residency](https://climhub.org/2017-was-year-climate-change-began-to/): ArtCenter SOUTH FLORIDA is offering a one-year Miami residency with free housing, a $25,000 stipend, and "$7,500 in production funds" from April 1, 2018 – April 1, 2019 to help develop a 500 million dollar climate change "resiliency plan that incorporates the voices of residents and experts [that] will prepare the city to survive, adapt and grow as it faces a warming climate [ .
- [I Imagined the Spirit of the Lord](https://climhub.org/i-imagined-spirit-of-lord/): moved over the waters, once rainbowed coral reefs bleached white as deer antlers, melting poles, and said to the man and woman,"You are so lost."
- [For My Christian Friends Who Say to Relax About Climate Change](https://climhub.org/for-my-christian-friends-who-say-to/): In the King James Bible, Revelation 11:18 says "and [God] shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth." Is that us? Our family? Our community?
- [In a  Small Town Washington Restaurant Thinking of Earth Before and After Exxon](https://climhub.org/in-small-town-washington-restaurant/)
- [Back in Portland, Oregon, Working on Carbonfish Blues](https://climhub.org/back-in-portland-oregon-working-on/): Turtles in Portland, Oregon's Legacy Emanuel Children's Garden by unknown artist.
- [Just Fight It (Climate Breakdown)](https://climhub.org/just-fight-it-climate-breakdown/): Tonight the Thompson Fire, the third largest in California history [Dec.
- [Two Climate Change Videos for My Skeptic Friends](https://climhub.org/two-climate-change-videos-for-my/)
- [Will COP26 Be the "great unraveling or great turning?"](https://climhub.org/will-cop26-be-great-unraveling-or-great/): JOANNA MACY: Climate Crisis As Spiritual Path from Old Dog Documentaries on Vimeo. (Used with permission.)
- [It's Time to Remove the Lower Four Snake River Dams to Save Salmon and Orca](https://climhub.org/i-agree-with-don-sampson-of-northwest/): I agree with Don Sampson of Northwest Tribal Salmon Alliance, "We're in a salmon crisis.
- [Driving Through the Climate Apocalypse](https://climhub.org/driving-through-climate-apocalypse/): For many years people asked me for good climate news, and I expect this to increase with the haunting new sixth report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
- [Gauguin and July 2021](https://climhub.org/gauguin-and-july-2021/): Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?
- [Guest Post by Will Kautz](https://climhub.org/guest-post-by-will-kautz/): This is a story of redemption. I know that word can mean different things to different people but sometimes redemption shows itself in strange places.
- [Climate Reality Pushback](https://climhub.org/climate-reality-pushback/): Used with permission of marine biologist Chris Harley.
- [Climate Culling and Healing](https://climhub.org/climate-culling-and-healing/): July 18, 2021 Update: Thank you to the 127 visitors from Myanmar (Burma) yesterday.
- [We Are All in a Ford Pinto](https://climhub.org/we-are-all-in-ford-pinto/): A September/October 1977 Mother Jones article by Mark Dowie noted "For seven years the Ford Motor Company sold [Pinto] cars in which it knew hundreds of people would needlessly burn to death."
- [Kevin Anderson Hits the Target About Academics "Running Scared"](https://climhub.org/kevin-anderson-hits-target-about/): Kevin Anderson is to some global leaders and many academics what Tiresias was to King Oedipus in the Noble Prize Summit -- OUR PLANET, OUR FUTURE April 27 performed by Bill Murray, Frances McDormand, Jeffrey Wright, Frankie Faison, David Strathairn, Corey Hawkins, and Nobel Prize-winning scientists, including Elizabeth Blackburn and Harold Varmus among others.
- [Steven Koonin vs Climate Reality](https://climhub.org/steven-koonin-vs-climate-reality/): It would be wonderful to discover NASA scientist James Hansen's June 23, 1988 warning to the U. S.
- [Thoughts and Prayers for Thousands of Klamath Falls, Oregon, Farmers/Ranchers, Facing Water Shut Off for "First Year in History" as "Millions of Migrating Birds" Suffer and "70% of [ . . . Downriver Salmon Smolts Are] Already Dead in the Traps Used to Collect Them"](https://climhub.org/thoughts-and-prayers-for-thousands-of/): My all-time best fishing buddy was my second cousin Gary Starbuck who lived in Kamath Falls, Oregon, so I made visits there the past five years.
- [Massachusetts Review Accepting Work Until June 15 About "climate refugees, environmental migrants, and others who are experiencing the disaster firsthand"](https://climhub.org/massachusetts-review-accepting-work/): Here are "General Guidelines."
- [Climate Emergency and Harlan Howard's "three chords and the truth”](https://climhub.org/climate-emergency-and-harlan-howards/): It has been widely reported Harlan Howard defined country music as “three chords and the truth,” and it could also be a motto for the climate emergency.
- [President Biden's April 22/23 Climate Summit (also called "Leaders' Climate Summit"), and Noble Prize Summit -- OUR PLANET, OUR FUTURE April 26/27/28](https://climhub.org/president-bidens-april-2223-climate/): I watched most of the first day of President Biden's April 22/23 Climate Summit, and participated in the Noble Prize Summit -- OUR PLANET, OUR FUTURE April 26/27/28.
- [Documenting a Vanishing Pacific Northwest Ecosystem and Culture](https://climhub.org/documenting-vanishing-pacific-northwest/): April 30, 2021 Update -- Yesterday apnews.com reported "California officials will again truck ['more than 16.8 million'] young salmon raised at fish hatcheries in the state’s Central Valley agricultural region to the Pacific Ocean because projected river conditions show that the waterways the fish use to travel downstream will be historically low and warm due to increasing drought."
- [Biden, Putin, Xi Jinping, and Obama Should Fish Together Before Biden’s April 22/23 Climate Summit](https://climhub.org/biden-putin-xi-jinping-and-obama-should/): April 20, 2021 Update -- According to dw.com in Germany, President of Russia Vladimir Putin will attend U. S. President Joe Biden's April 22/23 Climate Summit.
- [87 year-old Social Scientist Dr. Mayer Hillman's Warning to Humanity in October 2020](https://climhub.org/89-year-old-social-scientist-dr-mayer/): Used with permission of Extinction Rebellion.
- [Sir David Attenborough's Warning to Humanity at UN Security Council Feb. 23, 2021](https://climhub.org/sir-david-attenboroughs-warning-to/): Used with permission of Extinction Rebellion.
- [It May Be Too Late for Paris Climate Conference Goal of 1.5 C Meaning "a further 70–90%" of Earth's Coral Reefs May Be Lost According to IPCC](https://climhub.org/it-may-be-too-late-for-paris-climate/): Dave Borlace, noted as best "explainer" in my "Updated Best Practices for Climate Crisis," posted a helpful video on 1/27/21 Is it too late to avoid 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming?.
- [Why We Won't Just Leave -- What Alaska Is Telling the World About Climate Change, Virtual Opening and Curatorial Talk by Lindsay Carron on February 27th at 4:00 PM PST Presented on Zoom by Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC) in Los Angeles](https://climhub.org/why-we-wont-just-leave-what-alaska-is/): Artworks (Left to Right): Keri Oberly, Photograph of Quannah Chasinghorse Potts and Jody Juneby Potts, 2020 (Partial View); Bill Hanson, ​Broken Blue Ruins at Low Tide​, Digital Image from series “Southeast Alaska: Changing Climate, Changing Landscapes, Changing Life” (Partial View) and; Apay’uq Moore, ​Gram and Girl​, Acrylic on Canvas, 2020 (Partial View).
- [Representative Mike Simpson's (R-Idaho) Plan to Remove Four Lower Snake River Dams](https://climhub.org/representative-mike-simpsons-r-idaho/): Thanks to Columbia Riverkeeper for an email about "Representative Mike Simpson ['s] (R-Idaho) historic proposal to remove the four Lower Snake River Dams and create jobs and prosperity throughout our region.
- [Oregon and Washington Win Big](https://climhub.org/oregon-and-washington-win-big/): Congratulations to many activists who helped stop, for now, the Jordan Cove LNG terminal in Coos Bay, Oregon, and proposed world's largest Kalama, Washington methanol refinery.
- [Tahlequah's Baby by Dakota/Salish Artist Robert "Running Fisher" Upham](https://climhub.org/tahlequahs-baby-by-dakotasalish-artist/): Dakota/Salish Artist Robert "Running Fisher" Upham wrote "Tahlequah is an orca, part of the 'J Pod' which spends part of each year off the northern coast of Washington State.
- [Climate Scientists Plan for Their Families, COVID Scientists Struggle to Help in December 2020, as I Again Recall Words of Isaac Asimov](https://climhub.org/climate-scientists-plan-for-their/): The video below is a repost of my May 20, 2018 list "Climate Scientists Expressing Nightmare/Anger/Fear/Gratitude/Other Feelings."
- ["UN Secretary General: Without the US in the Paris Agreement, Humanity Faces Climate ‘Suicide’" by Mark Hertsgaard in The Nation, Dec. 2, 2020](https://climhub.org/un-secretary-general-without-us-in/): Quotes from Hertsgaard's article in the Dec.
- [What is the Best Way to Explain the Climate Crisis?](https://climhub.org/what-is-best-way-to-inform-people-about/): Yale Climate Connections recently published an audio/text article by psychologist/researcher/journalist Renée Lertzman, "Why frightening facts don't always move people to action on climate change."
- ["What Biden will and won’t be able to achieve on climate change" by James Temple at MIT Technology Review](https://climhub.org/what-biden-will-and-wont-be-able-to/): James Temple's subtitle is "Passing aggressive climate laws will be highly difficult without Democratic control of the Senate.
- [For the Sake of Our Only Planet: A Nonprofit’s Fight Against Economic Growth by Richard Tibbetts](https://climhub.org/for-sake-of-our-only-planet-nonprofits/): I invited Richard Tibbetts, Communications Specialist for the Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy (CASSE), to write a guest post because I was impressed with CASSE's steadystate.org Website, and saw writer David Orr on the Executive Board.
- [Open Letter to Director Watson and Washington Dept. of Ecology to Please Do a Climate Analysis of Northwest Innovation Works’ (NWIW) Proposed Fracked Gas-to-methanol Refinery in Kalama](https://climhub.org/open-letter-to-director-watson-and/): UPDATE: Columbia Riverkeeper reported "a broad coalition of over 30 community organizations representing tens of thousands of people from across the Northwest urged the Washington Department of Ecology and Governor Jay Inslee to deny the world’s largest fracked gas-to-methanol refinery, proposed in Kalama, Washington.
- [Thinking of Orwell’s 1984, Australia’s 2019-2020 Fires That Killed or Destroyed Habitat for Nearly Three Billion Animals, Oregon’s 500,000 Citizens Widely-reported as Fleeing Fires, or Ordered to Prepare to Flee Yesterday, and California and Washington Fires, as Climate Crisis Morphs into Climate Tsunami](https://climhub.org/thinking-of-orwells-1984-australias/): In George Orwell's novel 1984, he wrote “It is not merely that speeches, statistics, and records of every kind must be constantly brought up to date in order to show that the predictions of the Party were in all cases right.
- [My Review of Planet of the Humans, and My Thoughts on Climate Tsunami](https://climhub.org/my-review-of-film-planet-of-humans-and/): I read Jeff Gibbs' interview regarding his controversial film Planet of the Humans which I saw.
- [August 2020 COVID-19 and Climate Updates](https://climhub.org/august-2020-covid-19-and-climate-updates/): Video used with permission of Aspen Strategy Group.
- [Two Salmon and a Melting East Antarctic Ice Sheet](https://climhub.org/two-salmon-and-melting-east-antarctic/): An 18 pound and 16 pound spring chinook on my truck gate in June 2020.
- [Love in the Time of Coronavirus, and Widely-reported Arctic Record-breaking Heat](https://climhub.org/love-in-time-of-coronavirus-and-widely/): Creek not far from my house.
- [Asia Times Reports "Severity of [COVID-19] disease impact linked to BCG policies"](https://climhub.org/asia-times-reports-severity-of-covid-19/): April 6, 2020, Update: Roni Caryn Rabin at The New York Times updated the Covid-19 / BCG topic with her April 3 (updated April 5) article "Can an Old Vaccine Stop the New Coronavirus?
- [Global Dimming Debate](https://climhub.org/global-dimming-debate/): November 23, 2021 Update: Dr. Ye Tao, RF Alumnus of Rowland Institute at Harvard, provided an update on the global dimming issue.
- ["The trees will carry what we don't say." -- Robert Bly](https://climhub.org/the-trees-will-carry-what-we-dont-say/): Here in the US there is a huge amount of misinformation about coronavirus (COVID-19) at all levels.
- [Four Quick Thoughts About Coronavirus (COVID-19)](https://climhub.org/four-quick-thoughts-about-coronavirus/): 1) The media focus now is on how "US, UK coronavirus strategies shifted following UK epidemiologists' ominous report" noting, according to CNN.com's Nick Paton Walsh, "attempts to slow, or mitigate -- rather than actively halt, or suppress -- the novel coronavirus could overwhelm the number of intensive care hospital beds and lead to about 250,000 deaths in the UK and more than a million in the United States during the course of the current pandemic."
- [Coronavirus News: Good, Bad, and Ugly -- Updated March 7-9, 2020](https://climhub.org/coronavirus-news-good-bad-and-ugly/): March 7-9, 2020 Update: Italy extended its COVID-19 quarantine to the entire country.
- [Updated Best Practices for Climate Crisis (April 2024)](https://climhub.org/best-practices-for-climate-crisis/): Used with permission of Extinction Rebellion Seattle.
- [Climate Lifeboats of the Rich and Famous?](https://climhub.org/climate-lifeboats-of-rich-and-famous/): For many years, I told my creative writing students to listen deeply for circles, threads, and connections.
- [Two Charts Showing What 2 C, 3 C, 4 C, and 5 C Mean. Global Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDC) Agreed to in Paris in 2016 Were 3.5 C (6.3 F) Over Pre-Industrial Levels, and Global Emissions Are Still Rising.](https://climhub.org/two-charts-showing-what-2-c-3-c-4-c-and/): Used with permission of Datawrapper.
- [Climate Grief](https://climhub.org/climate-grief/): About 9 years ago, my life partner of 6 years died suddenly and unexpectedly. She was laughing and joking at breakfast, and nearly gone by evening.
- [Koala Bear Dream](https://climhub.org/koala-bear-dream/): I dreamed Koalas with human voices asked for a seat at the UN.
- [Process Work Institute's CLIMATE FORUM: Is Portland [Oregon] Making a Difference? Jan. 17, 2020](https://climhub.org/process-work-institutes-climate-forum/): I was glad to attend Process Work Institute's CLIMATE FORUM: Is Portland [Oregon] Making a Difference?, and I hope other cities will follow this format of diverse perspectives, patient listening, and community building.
- [Dissenting Judge Staton in Lost Case 18-36082 Kelsey Rose Juliana v. USA (Children's Trust Climate Lawsuit Permission to Proceed to Trial Against USA Heard by Case Panel: MURGUIA, HURWITZ, STATON): "In these proceedings, the government accepts as fact that the United States has reached a tipping point crying out for a concerted response – yet presses ahead toward calamity. It is as if an asteroid were barreling toward Earth and the government decided to shut down our only defenses. Seeking to quash this suit, the government bluntly insists that it has the absolute and unreviewable power to destroy the nation.”](https://climhub.org/dissenting-judge-staton-in-lost-case-18/): For background, click here.
- [Judge Gives New Meaning to "Swiss Bank Account"](https://climhub.org/judge-gives-new-meaning-to-term-swiss/): Feb. 6, 2020 Update from Leonard Higgins, Valve Turner: "Regretfully, the Skagit County Superior Court granted the Prosecution’s last-minute motion to delay fellow Valve Turner Ken Ward’s [climate necessity defense] trial (that was scheduled to begin on Monday) to sometime later this Spring.
- [Mary Annaïse Heglar's "My wish for 2020 [. . .]"](https://climhub.org/mary-annaise-heglars-my-wish-for-2020/): I found this tweet at Olympic Climate Action's blog Hot Off the Wire 1/3/2020, and received permission from Natural Resources Defense Council Publications Director Mary Annaïse Heglar to repost.
- [DOCUMENTARY: Climate skeptic examines what scientists know and how they know it (by Verify Road Trip in Dallas, Texas)](https://climhub.org/documentary-climate-skeptic-examines/): Thanks to David Schechter / Verify Road Trip for permission.
- ["2020 spring salmon forecast mirrors previous year’s [low returns]" -- The Columbian](https://climhub.org/2020-spring-salmon-forecast-mirrors/): Suz on a river near our house about three years ago.
- [Planck Epoch to Precambrian to Anthropocene to Titanicene, "What a long strange trip it's been." -- Grateful Dead](https://climhub.org/planck-epoch-to-precambrian-to/): When the "unsinkable" Titanic went down, some rich people died.
- ["'The Most Extreme Fires We’ve Ever Seen': Record Climate-Fueled Wildfires Engulf Australia in Smoke" Democracy NOW! at COP25](https://climhub.org/the-most-extreme-fires-weve-ever-seen/): Jan. 14, 2020 Update: "An Australia in flames tries to cope with an ‘animal apocalypse.’ Could California be next?"
- [Climate Change and Why We Should Panic voiced by Keira Knightley | Extinction Rebellion](https://climhub.org/climate-change-and-why-we-should-panic/): Used with permission of Extinction Rebellion.
- [Climate Crisis Underreported in KPBS Roundtable Discussion in San Diego](https://climhub.org/climate-crisis-underreported-in-kpbs/): As I wrote on the back of Hawk on Wire, "the INDC (Intended Nationally Determined Contributions) agreed to in Paris in 2016 of 3.5° C (6.3° F) over pre-industrial levels are insanely irresponsible to present and future generations of all species."
- ["Look, Look, Look"](https://climhub.org/look-look-look_5/): Some thought my last post was a bit dramatic, but it was, unfortunately, factual.
- [Open Letter to World Leaders on "Eve of Destruction" at COP25 Dec. 2 – Dec. 13, 2019, Madrid, Spain](https://climhub.org/open-letter-to-world-leaders-on-eve-of/): 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 time is over.
- [Is the boat on fire or is Suz reeling in a halibut?](https://climhub.org/is-boat-on-fire-or-is-suz-reeling-in/): Sometimes I take a break from climate work to fish.
- ["Climate Scientist [Oxford Doctor Adam Levy] reacts to Donald Trump's climate comments"](https://climhub.org/climate-scientist-oxford-doctor-adam/): 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.
- [Climate Equity Graph from Meinshausen et al. 2009, and Aerosol Killing / Cooling Double Bind](https://climhub.org/climate-equity-graph-from-meinshausen/): and used by Paul Beckwith.
- [The [Torture] Report](https://climhub.org/the-torture-report/): 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.
- [Climate Dominoes in California and East Australia](https://climhub.org/climate-dominoes-in-california-and-east/): Used with permission of Extinction Rebellion.
- ["Senators announce bipartisan climate caucus: 'We look a bit like Neanderthals'" -- CBS NEWS](https://climhub.org/senators-announce-bipartisan-climate/): See the CBS News video Senators announce bipartisan climate caucus: "We look a bit like Neanderthals."
- [“Violence is a failure of the imagination.” -- William Stafford](https://climhub.org/violence-is-failure-of-imagination/): "Radiohead - Idioteque" used with permission of Extinction Rebellion.
- [Climate Conversations](https://climhub.org/climate-conversations/): 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.
- ["New Study: 300 Million Face Severe Risk of Climate-Fueled Coastal Flooding by 2050"-- Democracy NOW!](https://climhub.org/new-study-300-million-face-severe-risk/): In the above video, Harjeet Singh, global lead on climate change for ActionAid, says "Let’s understand, the climate crisis and the social unrest in Chile or elsewhere have the same root cause: that’s inequality.
- [California Fires: This is Not the New Normal](https://climhub.org/california-fires-this-is-not-new-normal/): Yesterday cbsnews.com showed two videos about recent California fires: here and here.
- [Reflections on Arctic Circle 2019 Assembly and Leslie Field's Ice911 Geoengineering Idea to Cool the Arctic With Hollow Silicate Beads](https://climhub.org/reflections-on-arctic-circle-2019/): It was great to read Mia Bennett, of the University of Hong Kong's Department of Geography and School of Modern Languages & Cultures, report on power brokers' ideas in Arctic Circle 2019 Assembly October 10 - 13 in Reykjavík.
- [For My Christian Friends (Ruth Jarman of Christian Climate Action)](https://climhub.org/for-my-christian-friends-listen-to-ruth/): Used with permission of Extinction Rebellion.
- [Fighting Climate Change with Dance | KQED Arts](https://climhub.org/fighting-climate-change-with-dance-kqed/): Used with permission of KQED Arts.
- [The Moscow Times Reports East Siberian Sea Methane Emissions "Up to Nine Times the Global Average"](https://climhub.org/the-moscow-times-reports-east-siberian/): Thanks to Paul Beckwith for his video update Arctic Methane Measurements over Eastern Siberian Shelf Are Now the Highest Ever Measured.
- [IMF Proposes Global $75 a Ton Carbon Tax "by 2030"](https://climhub.org/imf-proposes-global-75-ton-carbon-tax/): Today's Washington Post reported "The world needs a massive carbon tax in just 10 years to limit climate change, IMF says" by Chris Mooney and Andrew Freedman.
- [Former UK police officers share their views on XR and the climate crisis | Extinction Rebellion Oct. 5, 2019](https://climhub.org/former-uk-police-officers-share-their/): Used with permission of Extinction Rebellion.
- [Two Items from New IPCC Report, "Sky Whale" Poem, and New Book](https://climhub.org/three-items-from-new-ipcc-report-sky/): The above video by Dave Borlace's Just Have a Think is full of great information but I will focus on two items and what 5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial of 1850 means: 1) "It's actually more like about 5 degrees Celsius higher [ .
- ["Top Five 2019 Summer Arctic Calamities" Increase Geoengineering Pressure](https://climhub.org/top-five-2019-summer-arctic-calamities/): I'm grateful to Dave Borlace's Just Have a Think for these updates.
- [A Sept. 7, 2019, CNBC video notes "This Bill Gates-funded chemical cloud could help stop global warming [with 'significant risks and uncertainties']"](https://climhub.org/a-sept-7-2019-cnbc-video-notes-this/): Last week Corey Gabriel, Executive Director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Masters of Advanced Studies in Climate Science and Policy (MAS CSP) gave a geoengineering lecture that showed stakes are rapidly rising for nations to decide how, where, when and if to use this controversial plan to reduce climate impacts.
- [Welcome to the Future -- Thoughts and Prayers for Those in Dorian's Path](https://climhub.org/welcome-to-future-thoughts-and-prayers/): Today weather.com reported "This is the strongest hurricane to ever go through the NW Bahamas, right now 180 miles an hour maximum sustained winds with gusts to up to 220 miles an hour."
- [What's wrong with this picture?](https://climhub.org/whats-wrong-with-this-picture/): The Guardian's Naaman Zhou reported today in "Sydney Anglican and Catholic schools system won't back student climate strike" "While [the NSW Government is] thrilled to see our students passionate about the environment, the best way for young people to really make a difference is to receive a quality education.
- [Roger Hallam's Emotional and Intellectual Honesty](https://climhub.org/roger-hallams-emotional-and/): I posted the above video because I respect Roger Hallam's emotional and intellectual honesty.
- [Look to Iceland for "Rude  Truth" About Climate Crisis](https://climhub.org/look-to-iceland-for-truth-about-climate/): The site of the former Okjökull glacier, photographed in 2018. Photo by Ragnar Antoniussen.
- [17-year-old Hardware Store Worker Gets 118.4 Fahrenheit [48°C]  While Wealthy Get A/C in Iraq](https://climhub.org/17-year-old-hardware-store-worker-gets/): David Wallace-Wells' (The Uninhabitable Earth) Twitter page linked this story today which, according to Richard Hall of independent.co.uk, "offers a troubling glimpse into a future where only the wealthy are equipped to escape the effects of climate change."
- [Trees, Ghost Fish, and Dreams? Bristol Bay Watershed's Feared Pebble [Gold and Copper] Mine May Proceed after EPA Removes Salmon Protection Overruling "Top Scientists" According to CNN](https://climhub.org/trees-ghost-fish-and-dreams-bristol/): This morning I saw the Pebble Mine in Alaska's Bristol Bay area may proceed if Alaska Governor Dunleavy gets his wish.
- ["How It Is [in Greenland]"](https://climhub.org/how-it-is-in-greenland/): August 16, 2019 Update: According to Jon Henley in today's The Guardian "Donald Trump may have expressed an interest in acquiring Greenland for the US, but Denmark thinks the idea is frankly insane and Greenlanders have pointed out their home is not actually for sale."
- ["Deep adaptation is just really a set of four questions . . ." -- Jem Bendell's talk at European Commission published May 30, 2019](https://climhub.org/deep-adaptation-is-just-really-set-of/): In my post "Arctic Methane Debate Rages On" (February 7, 2019) I wrote about conflicting views between Jem Bendell, Professor of Sustainability Leadership and Founder of the Institute for Leadership and Sustainability (IFLAS) at the University of Cumbria (UK), and Carolyn Ruppel, Ph.D, Research Geophysicist at Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, and leader of the USGS Gas Hydrates Project.
- [Fleeing climate change - the real environmental disaster | DW Documentary (May 1, 2019. "DW is a German Public Broadcast Service." 198, 251 views as of today)](https://climhub.org/fleeing-climate-change-real/): Used with permission of DW.
- [Earthrise film featuring Apollo 8 astronauts Bill Anders, Frank Borman, and Jim Lovell directed by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee](https://climhub.org/earthrise-film-featuring-apollo-8/): The climate crisis magnifies my respect for the free 29-minute film Earthrise, from the collection "Top 10 Films to Watch This Summer" noted by globalonenessproject.org Executive Director Cleary Vaughan-Lee as "[our] most-watched films used by teachers from this past school year."
- [Slim Bracken Warned Me "Everything Changes"](https://climhub.org/my-mentor-slim-bracken-once-warned-me/)
- ["what matters most is / how well you / walk through the / fire" -- Bukowski](https://climhub.org/what-matters-most-is-how-well-you-walk/): If you are just tuning in to the climate crisis, it may be difficult to process "we are already off the cliff" according to reporter Dahr Jamail, winner of the Martha Gellhorn Award for Journalism for his work in Iraq and the Izzy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Independent Media in 2018.
- [Fishin' Solution](https://climhub.org/fishin-solution/): Yesterday my landlord informed me my hot water heater broke and flooded my apartment so there is mold to the ceiling and water everywhere.
- [(Nonviolently) Sabatoging Oil and Gas Leasing in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge](https://climhub.org/nonviolently-sabbatoging-oil-and-gas/): September 16, 2019 Update: Democracy Now!
- [Andrew Critchlow's July 9, 2019 S&P Global Article "OPEC is playing into Thunberg’s hands on climate change"](https://climhub.org/andrew-critchlows-july-9-2019-s-global/): Andrew Critchlow's July 9, 2019 S&P Global article is "OPEC is playing into [16-year-old] Thunberg’s hands on climate change."
- [In 2007 Serge Planton of Meteo-France Warned of European Heatwave "Every two years after 2017"](https://climhub.org/in-2007-serge-planton-of-meteo-france/): Many have heard of the June/July 2019 European heatwave, heat records in Alaska, and recent California tidal mussels cooked in shells.
- [Kingsnorth, Thunberg, Berry, Jensen, and Evehema vs "the Machine"](https://climhub.org/kingsnorth-thunberg-berry-jensen-and/): Thanks to Oregon naturalist and writer Tim Fox for emailing me this great Kingsnorth essay "Life versus the Machine" from Orion (winter 2018).
- [Fishin' for the Halibut](https://climhub.org/fishin-for-halibut/): I fished for halibut June 20 out of Newport, Oregon.
- [Universities, Colleges, and Schools at All Levels Must Focus on Climate Literacy and Action](https://climhub.org/universities-colleges-and-schools-at/): June 19, 2019 Update: I recall one sad evening when my partner of 6 years, the artist Shura Young, died unexpectedly from stroke.
- [Slow Fishin'](https://climhub.org/slow-fishin/): 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.
- [Columbia River Thoughts](https://climhub.org/columbia-river-thoughts/): Recently I was driving down the Columbia River thinking about the June 4 United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Portland, Oregon hearing arguments regarding if the case Juliana v.
- [Live Streamed 18-36082 Kelsey Rose Juliana v. USA Today at 2 p.m. (Children's Trust Climate Lawsuit Permission to Proceed to Trial Against USA to be Heard by Case Panel: MURGUIA, HURWITZ, STATON)](https://climhub.org/live-streamed-18-36082-kelsey-rose/): June 23 Update: 60 Minutes posted the longer version of the story The climate change lawsuit that could stop the U.S. government from supporting fossil fuels.
- [May 29, 2019 Climate Update from Dahr Jamail on Thom Hartmann Program (3 C Minimum?)](https://climhub.org/may-29-2019-climate-update-from-dahr/): "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."
- [Thomas Merton, Jacob Boehme, Thich Nhat Hanh, Buddha, and Dalai Lama](https://climhub.org/thomas-merton-jacob-boehme-thich-nhat/): On the Road with Thomas Merton from Emergence Magazine on Vimeo. Used with permission.
- [Dahr Jamail on Recent Climate Data, and Pit River Tribe's Legend of Mis Misa (Spirit in Mt. Shasta)](https://climhub.org/dahr-jamail-on-recent-climate-data-and/): To complement what Jamail says about the IPCC, you may want to see this link.
- [Imagining Year 2100 Legal Prosecution and Sentencing After AMOC Collapse, Thwaites Glacier Ice Shelf Loss, and Various Tipping Points Crossed](https://climhub.org/imagining-year-2100-legal-prosecution-and-sentencing-after-amoc-collapse-thwaites-glacier-ice-shelf-loss-and-various-tipping-points-crossed/): This post is a thought experiment using ChatGPT to imagine year 2100 after a possible AMOC collapse, Thwaites Glacier (Antarctic "Doomsday Glacier") ice shelf loss, and various tipping points crossed resulting in 4 C above year 1850 preindustrial baseline temperature.
- [Love One Thing](https://climhub.org/love-one-thing/): Big changes climate-wise are happening fast, exceptionally fast on geologic timescales, while politicians hope for a tech-miracle which seems increasingly unlikely.
- [Chocolate Ration](https://climhub.org/chocolate-ration/): Recent removal of the U. S. "endangerment finding" does not change the laws of physics. As I wrote before, “In politics belief is reality.
- [Kesey vs. Academics and Scientists](https://climhub.org/kesey-vs-academics-and-scientists/): Many years ago I read Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest on the ferry between Haines, Alaska and Seattle.
- [Using ChatGPT to Imagine Climate Headlines 10 Years from Now in November 2035, and to Generate Solutions](https://climhub.org/using-chatgpt-to-imagine-climate-headlines-10-years-from-now-in-november-2035-and-to-generate-solutions/): James Hansen recently said at 8:18 on a YouTube featuring "his keynote at ATLAS25," "I will argue that we are on track for AMOC [(Atlantic meridional overturning circulation)] shutdown within a few decades.
- [Climate Policy Analyst David Spratt vs. COP30](https://climhub.org/climate-policy-analyst-david-spratt-vs-cop30/): The COP30 sacrifice zone appears to be everywhere beyond their warped imaginations.
- [Beware Fraudulent Invitations to COP30!](https://climhub.org/beware-fraudulent-invitations-to-cop30/): The official site for the UN Climate Change Conference - Belém, November 2025 in Brazil notes "a look-alike domain" has been sending invitations trying "to obtain money and/or in many cases personal details."
- [Nations in the Pickle Barrel Plus Low-risk, High-risk, and Another Possible Solution](https://climhub.org/nations-in-the-pickle-barrel-plus-low-risk-high-risk-and-another-possible-solution/): Rapid expansion of small-scale geoengineering will happen sooner than most think, and there is about the same chance of avoiding an increasing number of major climate impacts, even in developed nations of the Global North, as Lassie the Collie designing, building, and driving a car.
- [Remembering Better Days](https://climhub.org/remembering-better-days/): It was a blessing to live when there were steelhead trout, chinook and coho salmon, tropical coral reefs, rain and temperate forests.
- [Thinking About Removal of Climate Data and Orwell's 1984](https://climhub.org/thinking-about-removal-of-climate-data-and-orwells-1984/): "This day-to-day falsification of the past, carried out by the Ministry of Truth, is as necessary to the stability of the regime as the work of repression and espionage carried out by the Ministry of Love.
- [Thoughts and Prayers for Those in the Los Angeles Area](https://climhub.org/thoughts-and-prayers-for-those-in-the-los-angeles-area/): Thoughts and prayers for those in the Los Angeles Area, and worse yet to come in other areas. Of course, loss of human life, now set at 25, is my main concern.
- [Undertaker's Almanac](https://climhub.org/undertakers-almanac/): I generally look to Australia’s December/January summer weather to guess USA's July/August summer weather.
- [Colombia is the Model](https://climhub.org/columbia-is-the-model/): Which one doesn't fit?
- [“Curiouser and Curiouser!” said Alice in Wonderland](https://climhub.org/curiouser-and-curiouser-said-alice-in-wonderland/): Thoughts and prayers for the people of Asheville, North Carolina and Valencia, Spain due to severe flooding.
- [Was a River](https://climhub.org/was-a-river/): Ian James' September 19, 2024 Los Angeles Times article "‘It’s really sad’: River dries up abruptly in Bakersfield, leaving thousands of dead fish" noted Kern River was diverted for crops and storage by the City of Bakersfield, California resulting in "more than 3,000 dead fish."
- [While They Differ on Outcome, Rockström and McPherson Have Similar Warnings](https://climhub.org/while-they-differ-on-outcome-rockstrom-and-mcpherson-have-similar-warnings/): Johan Rockström said in an Aug 15, 2024 YouTube with 90,789 views in the first day, "The Tipping Points of Climate Change — and Where We Stand | Johan Rockström | TED," "We are seriously running out of time [before exceeding our 'remaining carbon budget' that will trigger more catastrophic effects].
- [Openings -- Guest Post by Tim Fox](https://climhub.org/openings-guest-post-by-tim-fox/): [This essay first appeared in Dark Mountain: Issue 5, and is used with the author's permission.]
- ["Rate of Change. Rate of Change. Rate of Change." Let's All Sing Together.](https://climhub.org/rate-of-change-rate-of-change-rate-of-change-lets-all-sing-together/): Max Bearak's August 2, 2024 New York Times' article with photographs by Nanna Heitmann "Inside the Petrostate [Azerbaijan] Hosting This Year’s Global Climate Negotiations [COP29]" was informative, and many of the 123 comments were interesting, funny, or revealing, but nowhere did I see the main issue now which is "Rate of Change.
- [Recalling "CD ROM Drive or Cup Holder?" Joke](https://climhub.org/recalling-cd-rom-drive-or-cup-holder-joke/): A professor at one of the colleges where I taught mistook her CD ROM Drive for a cup holder, unaware of the common joke at the time.
- [Surfing Into Oblivion](https://climhub.org/surfing-into-oblivion/): When I taught in San Diego 23 years, I surfed with my students.
- [250 Trillion Dollars or Bust (Probably Bust)](https://climhub.org/250-trillion-dollars-or-bust-probably-bust/): Recently, climate writer Tad DeLay, in the CGTN YouTube "The Heat: Extreme Weather," said at 13:29 on the timeline, "Carbon dioxide is the temperature knob, and it is also the mass extinction knob.
- [Yellow Raincoat](https://climhub.org/yellow-raincoat/): Recently, I saw a man with a bright yellow raincoat fishing a clear river.
- [I Know a Guy Who Put More Care into Choosing a Fly Rod Than a Wife](https://climhub.org/i-know-a-guy-who-put-more-care-into-choosing-a-fly-rod-than-a-wife/): I know a guy who put more care into choosing a fly rod than a wife. For others, skiing or snowboarding are the main attractions in this world.
- [Defining Success](https://climhub.org/defining-success/): When I returned from fishing, my wife asked, "How was it?"
- [A Shut Off AMOC (Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation Driven by a North/South Saltwater Density Pump) "is a Distaster We Need to Avoid at All Costs" says Stefan Rahmstorf, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research & Professor of Physics of the Oceans](https://climhub.org/a-shut-off-amoc-atlantic-meridional-overturning-circulation-driven-by-a-north-south-saltwater-density-pump-is-a-distaster-we-need-to-avoid-at-all-costs-says-stefan-rahmstorf-potsdam-institute-f/): It may be too late says Stefan Rahmstorf who studied this more than 30 years.
- [Developed Nations Are Like Gollum](https://climhub.org/developed-nations-are-like-gollum/): but you know that if you read my blog.
- [I'll Make It Simple](https://climhub.org/ill-make-it-simple/): "Find some way to make joy no matter what."
- [Solastalgia Blues](https://climhub.org/solastalgia-blues/): When I was 9, the old Oregon forest behind my home was invaded by bulldozers making a new housing area.
- [Melting Arctic Reminds Me of Pompeii in 79 AD](https://climhub.org/melting-arctic-reminds-me-of-pompeii-in/): Reading climate.nasa.gov's 2022 "Key Takeaway: Summer Arctic sea ice extent is shrinking by 12.2% per decade due to warmer temperatures," and recalling President Niinistö of Finland in Joint Press Conference with President Trump, August 28, 2017, “If we lose the Arctic, we lose the globe,” I wrote a new poem below.
- [Bad News for Emperor Penguins, Fish, Seals, and Whales in Antarctica; Good News for Climate Activists at U. S. Supreme Court](https://climhub.org/bad-news-for-emperor-penguins-fish/): Bad News for Emperor Penguins, Fish, Seals, and Whales in Antarctica Yesterday The Guardian Science Editor Robin McKie reported, "‘Simply mind-boggling’: world record temperature jump in Antarctic raises fears of catastrophe -- An unprecedented leap of 38.5C in the coldest place on Earth is a harbinger of a disaster for humans and the local ecosystem."
- [21st Century Man](https://climhub.org/21st-century-man/): In reversal of Abraham Lincoln's famous words, here is my quote for 21st Century Man: “Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a flower and planted a thistle where I thought a thistle would grow.” I thought of this when I read how COP28 President, Dr.
- [Can AI Reduce the Climate Emergency? Maybe.](https://climhub.org/can-ai-reduce-climate-emergency-maybe/): Readers of this blog know the main obstacle to reducing the climate emergency is lack of political will in developed nations.
- [Outgoing  U. S. Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry Refers to Global Public Apathy as "a kind of de facto signature on a suicide pact"](https://climhub.org/outgoing-u-s-presidential-envoy-for/): In David Wallace-Wells March 6, 2024 New York Times interview "John Kerry: ‘I Feel Deeply Frustrated’," Kerry was quoted about global public climate apathy, "I’ve likened it to a kind of de facto signature on a suicide pact."
- [Same Planet, Different Worlds](https://climhub.org/same-planet-different-worlds/): World 1: Koala scorched in Australia due to massive fires according to a 2019 YouTube by The Sun with over 47 million views.
- [It's all so simple . . .](https://climhub.org/petersburg-traffic-jam/): It's all so simple alone on a stream or listening in desert silence.
- ["Atlantic Ocean is headed for a tipping point − once melting glaciers shut down the Gulf Stream, we would see extreme climate change within decades, study shows" -- The Conversation](https://climhub.org/atlantic-ocean-is-headed-for-tipping/): by René van Westen, Utrecht University; Henk A. Dijkstra, Utrecht University, and Michael Kliphuis, Utrecht University Used with permission.
- [El Niño and Warm Ocean Temperatures Increase California Rainstorms/Hurricane/Flooding/Evacuations](https://climhub.org/hurricanes-in-san-diego-maybe-says/): This is the second time I recycled a post video due to first-recorded hurricane winds off Big Sur, California, and widely-reported heavy rains, flooding, and warnings or evacuation orders affecting "over 11 million people" in the state.
- [Climate Sensitivity, and Human Insensitivity to Precautionary Principle](https://climhub.org/climate-sensitivity-and-human/): German theoretical physicist Sabine Hossenfelder's Youtube "I wasn't worried about climate change.
- [Jargon of Possible Human Extinction at 3°C Above Year 1850 Baseline](https://climhub.org/jargon-of-possible-human-extinction-at/): A friend said something like, "Most people don't understand the jargon of 2 C, 3 C, 4 C, 5 C, IPCC, and COP."
- [2023 Widely Noted as Hottest in About 125,000 Years](https://climhub.org/2023-widely-noted-as-hottest-in-about/): A friend led boatbuilding crews overseas. He told me when someone said, "Don't worry" it only meant one thing: "Worry."
- ["Every day you get older. Now that's a law!" Butch Cassidy in film Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid (1969)](https://climhub.org/every-day-you-get-older-now-thats-law/): Reflecting on ever-escalating climate emergency, I recall a 3-minute film scene in Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid (1969) when Butch says, "Every day you get older.
- ["130 nations at Cop28 [called] for a fossil fuel phase-out" but Big Oil and Major Oil-Producing Nations Said No](https://climhub.org/130-nations-at-cop28-called-for-fossil/): Yesterday, I wrote an angry response to COP28, then deleted before posting because it didn't help, or add anything.
- [A Good Time to Pray (post recycled from 1/9/18)](https://climhub.org/a-good-time-for-prayer/): This is the first time I recycled a post. I thought it odd this post was visted recently until I read it again.
- [Poem for COP28 in East Fork Eagle Creek, Columbia Gorge; James Hansen's "Global warming in the pipeline" (revised 23 May 2023) notes "Equilibrium global warming including slow feedbacks for today's human-made greenhouse gas (GHG) climate forcing (4.1 W/m2) is 10°C, reduced to 8°C by today's aerosols."; British Antarctic Survey researcher Dr. Kaitlin Naughten says "It looks like we’ve lost control of melting of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet." meaning, according to a related video, "slow addition of nearly 6 feet [1.8 meters] to sea levels" "in hundreds of years."](https://climhub.org/poem-for-cop28-in-east-fork-eagle-creek/): swift winter current.
- [Thinking About Antarctica](https://climhub.org/thinking-about-antarctica/): One of my most-visted posts August 4, 2023 quotes Graham Readfearn at The Guardian, July 29, 2023, and others, "[In Antarctica] an area bigger than Mexico has failed to freeze, worrying scientists."
- [Cain and Abel](https://climhub.org/cain-and-abel/): Other Christians and I were discussing what a climate sermon would be.
- [Art for Global Political Leaders Before COP28](https://climhub.org/art-for-global-political-leaders-before/): The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain".
- [Climate Story](https://climhub.org/climate-story/): I ran Climate Conversations for professors and students two years at one of the colleges where I taught. In one meeting I tried to make it simple.
- [Two Questions Before COP28](https://climhub.org/two-questions-before-cop28/): I was encouraged by former UN chief Christiana Figueres' comments reported by The Guardian's Dharna Noor September 21, 2023, "If [fossil fuel companies] are going to be [at COP28] only to be obstructors, and only to put spanners into the system, they should not be there.” The subtitle notes, "‘My patience ran out,’ said Christiana Figueres, who for years had advocated oil companies should be involved in policymaking talks."
- [Johan Rockström, IPCC, and World Leaders Bet Human Future on Fantasy-Scale Direct Air Capture, and Carbon Capture/Storage](https://climhub.org/johan-rockstrom-ipcc-and-world-leaders/): Video begins at 33:47.
- [Climate Disasters Are Here, and Worse Predicted to Come](https://climhub.org/climate-disasters-are-here-and-worse/): I was fishing in Canada, and took a lunch break in a lodge where I sat beside two men in heated conversation. I wrote about this in my September 6, 2018 post.
- [Al Gore "Hot and Bothered" About Big Oil's "Carbon Capture and Storage" and "Direct Air Capture" Plans](https://climhub.org/al-gore-hot-and-bothered-about-big-oils/): August 17, 2023 Update -- CBS News anchor Errol Barnett interviewed Washington Post reporter Evan Halper about the multibillion dollar "Giant Direct Air Capture Vacuums" being built in Texas and Louisiana, and planned for other states.
- [Amazon Rainforest, Global Coral Reefs, and Bukowski](https://climhub.org/amazon-rainforest-global-coral-reefs/): May 11, 2023, NASA scientist Peter Kalmus wrote, "I was just at a NASA team meeting for 3 days in DC. The scientific findings are so fucked up.
- [Climate Resilience Hubs, and Pulitzer Prize-finalist Abrahm Lustgarten Reports "present pathway [ . . . . ] could lead to 2 billion people falling outside of the climate niche within just the next eight years, and 3.7 billion doing so by 2090"](https://climhub.org/climate-resilience-hubs-and-pulitzer/): Erin Stone reported July 31, 2023, at laist.com/news "How Resilience Hubs Can Help Communities Face The Heat And The Climate Emergency."
- [Heat Records and Retired Judge](https://climhub.org/heat-records-and-retired-judge/): Heat Records Various sources noted Phoenix, Arizona broke a record for consecutive days over 110 Fahrenheit (43.3 Celsius) at 23 days, and counting.
- [Bridge at the End of the World - New and Selected [Climate] Poems Won 2023 Blue Light Book Award](https://climhub.org/bridge-at-end-of-world-new-and-selected/): I'm grateful my new book of climate poems Bridge at the End of the World won a 2023 Blue Light Book Award.
- [1939 "Voyage of the Damned" and Climate Migration](https://climhub.org/1939-voyage-of-dammed-and-climate/): The 1939 "Voyage of the Damned" is timely due to past, current, and future responses to climate migrants. Amy Tikkanen's March 28, 2019 article "MS St.
- [Two Climate Solutions and  U. S. Supreme Court Decision](https://climhub.org/two-climate-solutions-and-u-s-supreme/): I agree with those who say it's wrong to just document climate disasters without offering real solutions.
- [Climate Bear and Rowboat](https://climhub.org/climate-bear-and-rowboat/): In the above trailer Edward Norton's character Jonathan Chopin says "I think it helps to look at climate change like a bear.
- [March Thoughts in 2023](https://climhub.org/march-thoughts-in-2023/): Trees and flowers' early blooms remind us of the Creative Force in the universe, and real self in each human, and how many people lost touch with both.
- [Western Washington State in Fall is Alive with Trees, Fish, and Dreams](https://climhub.org/western-washington-state-in-fall-is/): Western Washington State in fall is alive with trees, fish, and dreams, worth protecting if one has time and energy.
- ["Circus" COPS  and Civil Society "Clowns"](https://climhub.org/circus-cops-and-civil-society-clowns/): Today Terry Slavin at reuters.com quoted Sandrine Dixson-Declève, co-president of The Club of Rome, "I fear that COPs are becoming little more than a circus, with the petrostates as the ringmasters and us – civil society, progressive business and financial institutions, heads of state and negotiators from countries wanting climate action – are the clowns.
- [Man Denies Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD](https://climhub.org/man-denies-eruption-of-mount-vesuvius/): The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum (c.
- [Good COP, Bad COP](https://climhub.org/good-cop-bad-cop/): COP27 gave new meaning to "Good cop, bad cop." To use a football metaphor, imagine a fullback dropping the ball 27 consecutive games.
- [Thinking About Climate Catastrophe and Peter Iredale Shipwreck Near Astoria,  Oregon October 25, 1906](https://climhub.org/thinking-about-climate-catastrophe-and/): Thinking About Climate Catastrophe and Peter Iredale Shipwreck Near Astoria, Oregon October 25, 1906 London’s Board of Trade noted December 24, 1906 “an exceedingly heavy west north-west squall struck the vessel” overpowering captain and crew, forever grounding the 285 foot steel barque on shore of Clatsop Beach “in a thick mist” and tidal pull of Columbia River.
- [Thinking About David Wallace-Wells, John Kerry, King Charles III, and António Guterres Before COP27](https://climhub.org/thinking-about-david-wallace-wells-john/): Yesterday I read David Wallace-Wells' piece in The New York Times Magazine, "Beyond Catastrophe A New Climate Reality Is Coming Into View."
- [We Are Endangered Species](https://climhub.org/we-are-endangered-species/): Since I mentioned Carl Sagan and the word "cosmos" in my two previous posts, I am including the image that went into outer space on Pioneer 10 and 11 plaques that he gave me permission to put on an organic T-shirt with the words "Endangered Species."
- [Letter to Global Bankers](https://climhub.org/letter-to-global-bankers/): Karma debt isn't like credit debt.
- [Redefinition Blues](https://climhub.org/redefinition-blues/): “They are our cousins. Perhaps, the ones who come to my--my heroes, are the macaques, who are also known as rhesus monkeys. And when [ .
- [2022: A Space Odyssey Metaphor for Big Oil](https://climhub.org/2022-space-odyssey-dream-metaphor-for/): "HAL, solve climate change."
- [What I Think of COP1 through COP26](https://climhub.org/what-i-think-of-cop1-through-cop26/): I saw this car-crushed frog, and immediately thought of COP1 through COP26.
- [Letter: Prepare for climate refugees [in Vancouver, WA] - The Columbian](https://climhub.org/letter-prepare-for-climate-refugees-in/): I'm grateful The Columbian published my "Letter: Prepare for climate refugees [in Vancouver, WA]" September 9, 2022.
- [What We Have, What’s at Stake, and What Can Be Done](https://climhub.org/what-we-have-whats-at-stake-and-what/): Used with permission of CSER Cambridge.
- [July Drought, Loss of All German Alpine Glaciers in "15 Years," Inflation Reduction Act, and Pakistan Government Requests Help](https://climhub.org/july-drought-loss-of-all-german-alpine/): Donated to Fort Vancouver Regional Library Foundation.
- [Poetry as Prophecy](https://climhub.org/poetry-as-prophecy/): The recent idea to divert Mississippi River water (over objections of people who live there) to the Colorado River System reminds me of the bizarre no-music ballet scene in the film Amadeus.
- [The fight for water | DW Documentary Aug 10, 2022](https://climhub.org/the-fight-for-water-dw-documentary-aug/): Used with permission of DW.
- [Imagine, by 2053](https://climhub.org/imagine-by-2053/): I'm grateful Lower Columbia College in Longview, Washington accepted my Clay Salmon Poem in their art collection.
- [Professor Stefan Rahmstorf of Postsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Explains Extreme Jet Stream Weather Changes](https://climhub.org/professor-stefan-rahmstorf-of-postsdam/): Used with permission of DW.
- [After the Bureaucratic Meeting](https://climhub.org/after-bureaucratic-meeting/): for people who crave real food.
- [San Francisco Climate Clues, June 21, 2022](https://climhub.org/san-francisco-climate-clues-june-21-2022/): disrupting lives and livelihoods.
- [Industrial Oz Poem and Interview With Krista Hiser, Director at University of Hawai'i Center for Sustainability Across the Curriculum](https://climhub.org/industrial-oz-poem-and-interview-with/): away from ourselves.
- [Climate Activist Speaks With Australian Coal Miners About Climate Change](https://climhub.org/climate-activist-speaks-with-australian/): The above VICE News video with 750,175 views as of June 8, 2022, reminds me of my May 18, 2021 post "Thoughts and Prayers for Thousands of Klamath Falls, Oregon, Farmers/Ranchers, Facing Water Shut Off for 'First Year in History' as 'Millions of Migrating Birds' Suffer and '70% of [ .
- [Koda with toys](https://climhub.org/koda-with-toys/): In a related matter, my favorite recent climate article is "The kids are not OK" by Julia Steinberger at Yale Climate Connections May 15, 2022 republished from Medium.com.
- [Spaceship Earth](https://climhub.org/spaceship-earth/): unless we change course.
- [IPCC AR6 Part III (Translation: Global Leaders AWOL)](https://climhub.org/ipcc-ar6-part-iii-translation-global/): Bill McKibben wrote it best in his Substack publication The Crucial Years, "At 5 a.m.
- [Plain Speaking About IPCC's Second Part of the Sixth Assessment Report, Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, Summary for Policy Makers (signed off by 195 member nations). Clarification by Dr. Charlie Gardner of University of Kent, and Clare Farrell of Extinction Rebellion UK](https://climhub.org/plain-speaking-about-ipccs-second-part/): Used with permission of Extinction Rebellion.
- [Three Sockeye in the Columbia River, Oregon](https://climhub.org/three-sockeye-in-columbia-river-oregon/): The first had no eyes.
- [Dr Ye Tao talks with Clare Farrell | 23 November 2021 | Extinction Rebellion UK](https://climhub.org/dr-ye-tao-talks-with-clare-farrell-23/): Used with permission of Extinction Rebellion. Dr.
- [The Last Two Men on Earth](https://climhub.org/the-last-two-men-on-earth/): -- parts of this poem appeared in my February 23, 2020 post "Climate Lifeboats of the Rich and Famous?"
- [#DemocracyNow "'Don't Look Up': David Sirota on His Oscar Nod for Writing Blockbuster Climate Crisis & Media Satire"](https://climhub.org/democracynow-dont-look-up-david-sirota/): Regarding Don't Look Up's tech billionaire Sir Peter Isherwell (Mark Rylance) attempting to profit from the death comet's rare minerals, I recall Terry Macalister wrote about a real situation involving Royal Dutch Shell.
- [Living in the Time of Dying (Free Documentary by Michael Shaw featuring Professor of Sustainability, Jem Bendell; Dharma teacher and author, Catherine Ingram; Award winning journalist and author, Dahr Jamail and Native American Elder, author and teacher Stan Rushworth)](https://climhub.org/living-in-time-of-dying-free/): See the link to the documentary at livinginthetimeofdying.com I understood when posting that Jem Bendell's paper “Deep Adaptation: A Map for Navigating Climate Tragedy” is controversial among academics.
- [Buffering the Climate Emergency](https://climhub.org/buffering-climate-emergency/): Koda defending his otter.
- [Arctic and Antarctic News (Record 38 degrees Celsius or 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit in Arctic confirmed by World Meteorological Organization.)](https://climhub.org/arctic-and-antarctic-news-record-38/): Used with permission of DW.
- [COP26 Report from Tim Crosland, Extinction Rebellion spokesperson and Director of Plan B.Earth](https://climhub.org/cop26-report-from-tim-crosland/): Used with permission of Extinction Rebellion.
- [Reframe, Redefine](https://climhub.org/reframe-redefine/): Those who closely follow the climate emergency know even if we had COP26 global cooperation, and sincere GHG (greenhouse gas) reduction commitments by 2030, the climate future would be challenging.
- [After the First Day of COP26 (began Sunday, October 31)](https://climhub.org/after-first-day-of-cop26-began-sunday/): Used with permission of Extinction Rebellion.
- [Rethinking Weather Forecasts](https://climhub.org/rethinking-weather-forecasts/): Recently, a professor of statistics at my college said the probability of 115 F (46 C) in Seattle before June 2021 was zero, but it happened.
- [October 2021, Near a Washington State River](https://climhub.org/october-2021-near-washington-state-river/): branches snap in morning dark as a cougar stalks me.
- [I Found Some of my 2006 Clay Art in the Garage](https://climhub.org/i-found-some-of-my-2006-clay-art-in/): Recent words of climate desperation are not encouraging.
- [Arctic Methane Release, and the Urgency of Now](https://climhub.org/arctic-methane-release-and-urgency-of/): Blog readers may recall my February 7, 2019, post "Arctic Methane Debate Rages On," and my October 28, 2017, post "'If we lose the Arctic, we lose the globe.'

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