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Nature Bats Last: Sandy and the Unspoken Campaign Issue - Climate Change
For the first time in 24 years Global Climate Change was not mentioned at all in the presidential debates. Zip, zilch, nada. Following on the coattails of record droughts, heat waves, storm frequency...
View ArticleBuild a Chicken Coop, Because of Climate Change, B. C. C.
I've been reading a book lately, the title isHot: living through the next fifty years on Earth by Mark HertsgaardI bought it for six dollars, online, and it came to my mailbox a few days after I bought...
View ArticleWould Oil Company Owned Alternative Energy Save Planet?
I care about global climate change as much as you do. I distrust the fossil fuel industry as much as you do. I'm with 350.org and Bill McKibben as much as you are. And I'm as angry as you are...
View ArticleIndigo Kalliope: Poems From the Left: Build a Chicken Coop, and make sure...
Welcome to another Indigo Kalliope diary, which always reminds me of ulookarmless, also known as CJ Campbell, now deceased.I think he wrote this intro; correct me if I'm wrong: Join us every Tuesday...
View ArticleStone Soup for a Cold Night in Wichita
Here is the link to the parable of stone soup, a parable most of you know: http://mhschool.com/... Soon a villager approached, holding a cabbage that she had grabbed from its hiding place....
View ArticleTemp forecast in Australia 120-129 degrees!
From The New Scientist:"No relief can be expected from severe heatwave conditions for at least another week," says Danita Matusch, spokesperson for the Australian Bureau of Meteorology. The country is...
View ArticleProgression of the Drought
I worry about the ongoing drought every day. I know I am starting seeds, and talking about gardening, but there is always a part of me that is worrying about the long terms effects of the last two...
View ArticleStop the Carbon, Stupid
[This diary was supposed to get written in November and talk about Bill McKibben’s “Do the Math” tour. I didn’t get it done in time, as I’d promised, so instead of finding your way to a presentation,...
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What is Sustainable Landscaping?
Let us step back for a while from the fiscal cliff follies and the debt ceiling debacles, and the supine stupidity of inaction from the elites at the highest levels of power and look at something all...
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Reality Slapping the GOP on Climate
Given the incredibly coincidental reality-slaps that the GOP has received for their inane, insensitive & willfully, maliciously ignorant stance regarding the climate, I've created this mini-post...
View ArticleGlobal Temperatures Highest in 4,000 Years
That is the title of this New York Times story which warns thatover the coming decades are likely to surpass levels not seen on the planet since before the last ice age. The article is reporting on new...
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Award-winning film "Greedy Lying Bastards" pulls back curtain on...
Pay no attention to the Koch behind the curtainCross-posted from Eclectablog.NOTE: I realized that Beach Babe in FL has already posted about this film but I wanted to be sure it got LOTS of...
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An Easter PHOTOdiary: Peeps & global warming
We may be at a tipping pointIt's Easter Sunday and that can mean only one thing: it's time for the annual repost of our Peeps® post. Enjoy.Cross-posted from Eclectablog.Spring came early to southern...
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Good thing there's no such thing as climate change or Mich would have to...
At what point does climate change denial become a mental illness?Cross-posted from Eclectablog.Photo by Anne C. Savage, special to EclectablogThe Great Lakes are now at historically low levels. So low,...
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Steve King says religion is bullcrap
Sigh. Did he really mean to slam religion?Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) dismissed the concern over global warming, labeling it a "religion" and claiming efforts to address climate change are useless. "It is...
View ArticleWe are ALL Commanders-in-Chief now!
My Diary title is semi-facetious, but there is an element of truth that I want to discuss. President Obama today set a new precedent. For the first time since Ronald Reagan took office, a sitting...
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Perhaps There is Hope After All.
Making my way back from downtown Berkeley this lunchtime, I passed by a couple of high schoolers passing out a climate change flyer to other students and passersby in front of Berkeley High.On the back...
View ArticleLooking Away, Looking Up
I do not know how we will pull ourselves back from an ignorant plunge into the abyss.Our poisoned politics push forward the poisoning of the planet. We get only one earth with no do-overs.Every human...
View ArticleUS Energy Policy: A Bridge to Nowhere
Recent polls indicate that Americans do not appear to be concerned about global climate change or national energy policy. Understandably, most of us are worried about jobs, the economy, and gridlock...
View ArticleGlobal Climate Change: A Blow to the Head
As evidence mounts that global climate change is dramatically impacting our lives, resistance hardens. What will cause Americans to address this grave danger? Perhaps the answer lies in the campaign...
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