This letter was written in response to Eco-Justice Notes: Wacky Weather and Climate (www.eco-justice.org/E-120413.asp) received April 13, 2012 via email: You cite comments by one scientist based on non-peer reviewed research. Dr. Hoerling is a meteorologist, a field that has been notorious in denying human induced climate change. Also note: in other research, he concedes [...]
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Wacky Weather?
Posted in Environment, Natural History, tagged 350.org, Climate Change, climate change politics, climatedots.org, environment, weather on April 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Cherry Blossom Time
Posted in Environment, Natural History, Parks & Monuments, tagged 350.org, Big Oil Subsidies, cherry blossom festival 2012, Climate Change, climate change politics, global climate change, weather on March 31, 2012 | 1 Comment »
It’s supposed to be cherry blossom time in our nation’s capital. This year marks the 100th anniversary of Japan’s gift to the US of 3020 cherry trees which were planted around Washington’s tidal basin. First Lady Helen Taft and Viscountess Chinda, wife of the Japanese ambassador, planted the first two trees at a modest ceremony [...]
Spring Signs
Posted in Environment, Literary Nature Writing, Natural History, tagged Climate Change, climate change politics, Curry County Oregon, global climate change, Hal Borland, pacific tree frog, Politics, redwing blackbirds, weather on February 16, 2012 | 1 Comment »
I know I’m over a month early but there are too many signs not to recognize that Spring is in the air. The wonderful frogs we call “peepers” (they’re really Pacific Tree Frogs) have begun to hunt for mates, chirruping from the nearby wetland. Birds have also begun their predawn serenades. The robins and redwing [...]
Editorial: Occupy Wall Street/Gathering Hope
Posted in Environment, Literary Nature Writing, tagged Citizen Action, Climate Change, climate change politics, Gathering Hope, John Cobb, Lynton Caldwell, Occupy Wall Street, Politics, progressive politics, progressives, Steady State Economics, sustainability, Sustainable Economy, The Sustainability Project on November 3, 2011 | 1 Comment »
It’s nearing the end of day 48 of Occupy Wall Street. Yesterday (remarkably to me) 10,000 Occupy Oaklanders managed to bring the Port of Oakland to a standstill. Although there have been clashes and arrests there, as well as in other locales around the nation and the globe, overall this massive public demonstration has proved [...]
Editorial: A Time of Optimism, A Time of Danger
Posted in Environment, Literary Nature Writing, tagged Citizen Action, Climate Change, climate change politics, Gathering Hope, John Cobb, Lynton Caldwell, Occupy Wall Street, Politics, progressive politics, progressives, Steady State Economics, sustainability, Sustainable Economy, The Sustainability Project on October 17, 2011 | 1 Comment »
In the early 1990s, with the environment in rapid decline, the idea of sustainability emerged. The term implied this question: How does society pass on to future generations a reasonably whole environment and a reasonably stable and fair economy, all within the framework of social justice? In 1993, Ann and I with several others founded [...]
COMMENTARY Climate Chaos: Political Abdication and Governance Failure
Posted in Environment, tagged Climate Change, climate change and constitution, climate change and political philosophy, climate change law, climate change politics, common law and climate change, Copenhagen Climate Meeting, public trust doctrine and climate change on May 11, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Actions in the House of Representatives, driven by an unfathomable desire to deny climate change and the overwhelming scientific evidence of its danger to the Republic, raise a profound, fundamental and scary question: Can a sovereign government, in full light of overwhelming scientific consensus, disregard an existential threat to the nation’s health, safety and welfare, [...]
An Editorial: Bravo to Kids For Speaking Truth to Power
Posted in Environment, tagged 350.org, Bill McKibben, Climate Change, iMatterMarch, Our Children's Trust on May 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
New Mexico is knee deep in drought. Albuquerque’s drought status is currently classified extreme, and the southeastern plains has the worst ranking—Exceptional—awarded by the US Drought Monitor. http://drought.unl.edu/dm/monitor.html It looks like all sorts of weird weather is happening all over the US. It’s obvious this is the hot/cold/wet/dry/tornado-infested/hurricane-inundated/ “Noah Build Us an Ark” flood-leveled breath [...]
HardTime
Posted in Environment, Oregon, Western Photography, tagged Climate Change, Curry County Oregon, ocean impacts climate change, Port Orford OR, Scientific American Oceans Change articles on February 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
These days, I’m trying to keep my head down, my eyes averted. Moving virtually to the end of the continent, on the least traveled portion of a little traveled highway, I thought maybe I could run away from all the craziness that mars our lives and our society and our world. I have turned away [...]
Editorial: Why oh Why?
Posted in Environment, tagged 2010 Cancun Climate Meeting, Climate Change, Obama and Climate on December 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
My big excitement in the election of President Obama was this: here at last was a leader who would calmly and powerfully lead and persuade and cajole the American people and Congress to finally act decisively on climate policy. That he would realize, as a smart and persuasive guy, that the U.S.—the long term biggest [...]
The Closed Door
Posted in Environment, tagged 2010 Congressional Climate Bills, Climate Change, Politics on May 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
For all intents and purposes, U.S. climate action—at least any that is meaningful in face of the enveloping climatic chaos—is dead. The Waxman-Markey House bill, after being beaten almost to death by big oil, big utilities and big coal would grant mostly free carbon credits to the most polluting industries, making a joke of the [...]
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