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As if we needed more proof that world leaders (?) prefer the comfy status quo – temporary though it will be – over any action to reduce the heat on our planet, the next United Nations climate negotiations will
Read moreThe shameless sham shuffles on. World leaders have descended on Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, for another United Nations climate summit. COP(out)-27 promises delegates a great stay at one of Egypt’s prime resorts, “known for its sheltered sandy beaches, clear waters
Read moreSome of our profoundest realizations are quite simple. Philosopher Paul Weiss points out: “What is possible for the acorn depends in part on what is possible to the soil, and what is possible to the soil depends in part
Read moreAnd then one May day, it’s 90 degrees in the shade and spiking toward a hundred with a southwesterly blast furnace wind scouring the landscape with grit that brings tears to our eyes. And, might know, tears are
Read moreI was pleasantly surprised recently when I channel-surfed onto a new episode of Xploration Outer Space. Expert science communicator Emily Calandrelli was visiting the Blue Origin private space program facilities. She got to experience the zero gravity simulation that
Read moreAnother United Nations climate report can only mean more evidence that ignoring humankind’s impact on increasing global warming precedes dire consequences. In late February, the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change published Climate Change
Read moreLast December Huffington Post’s Sarah Ruiz-Grossman reported on a study in The Lancet Planetary Health journal that said, “Nearly 60 percent of young people surveyed said they were “very” or “extremely” worried about climate change, and 45 percent said
Read moreA new report by federal climate scientists predicts, “Sea levels along coastlines in the United States will rise about one foot by 2050, with larger increases on the East and Gulf coasts,” according to Rebecca Hersher of National Public
Read moreAmong the ways I amuse myself is by writing songs (“that no one ever shared”). I also turn that attention to putting my words to other people’s music – “Love Is Blue,” the waltz from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance
Read more“Is this what you’ve been looking for?” And, with that, an East Texas good ol’ boy threw the last ivory-billed woodpecker that anyone ever saw alive onto Archer Fullingim’s desk in his newspaper office in Kountze, Texas, with
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