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one melting glacier could mean an eleven foot rise in sea level

June 20, 2020

THIS IS THE FIRST OF TWO ARTICLES addressing the Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica. It is based on the article “If Thwaites Glacier collapses, it would change global coastlines forever” by Carolyn Beeler for The World website.

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lonesome george, the pinta island tortoise, has the “perfect” extinction story

January 14, 2021May 31, 2020

THE LAST OF THE PINTA ISLAND TORTOISES died in 2012. Known as Lonesome George, his story is “the perfect extinction story. It features a charismatic character with a recognizable face, an obvious villain, and the tireless efforts of naturalists. [Continue reading]

where has gcc – global climate change been during the pandemic?

May 29, 2020

a few must-read books about global climate change

March 24, 2020February 25, 2020

THE CLIMATE REALITY PROJECT has a list of “Five Must-Read Books About the Climate Crisis” (October 29, 2019). According to the blurb on their website, “It’s the perfect time of year to curl up with a great new book, so be sure to add these climate must-reads to your list.

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some rightwing lunatics really hate this teenager

February 14, 2020

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CLIMATE ACTIVIST GRETA THUNBERG is back in the news but not in a manner that she is enjoying. According to the article “Trolls Force Artist to Cancel a Planned Greta Thunberg Mural in North Dakota” by Yessenia Funes for Gizmodo (February 13, 2020), local artist/photographer Shane Balkowitsch took portraits of Thunberg in October 2019 when she was visiting members of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. [Continue reading]

inconceivable! red states accept climate change mitigation money

May 31, 2020January 28, 2020

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TRUMP PREPARING FOR CLIMATE CHANGE! Actually, the headline for the article by Zoya Teirstein for Grist (January 27, 2020) reads, “The Trump Administration is helping nine states prepare for climate change.” Either way, I know that many of you are thinking that word that Vizinni kept using in all the wrong places, “Inconceivable!” [Continue reading]

did you know that donald trump was an environmental hero?

March 24, 2020January 10, 2020

DONALD TRUMP, ENVIRONMENTAL HERO. To most of the people in the world concerned with the state of that world, those four words are more than a simple bit of irony: President Trump may be the quintessence of the climate change denial “movement”—ignorant (or duplicitous) and arrogant. [Continue reading]

the wicked witch of the east has returned to oz

March 16, 2020January 5, 2020

“AUSTRALIA TODAY IS GROUND ZERO for the climate catastrophe. Its glorious Great Barrier Reef is dying, its world-heritage rain forests are burning, its giant kelp forests have largely vanished, numerous towns have run out of water or are about to, and now the vast continent is burning on a scale never before seen. [Continue reading]

2018 another year of record temperatures around the world

March 16, 2020December 21, 2019

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THE GREENHOUSE GAS BULLETIN from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) provided figures for globally averaged concentrations of three key climate-heating gases in 2018: nitrous oxide (N₂O), carbon dioxide (CO₂), and methane (CH₄). [Continue reading]

FAVORITE QUOTES

“We cannot do it all at once, it is a sequence. An unfolding process. We can only control the end by making a choice at each step. We can only hope. And try. One some other world, possibly it is different. There are clear good and evil alternatives. Not these obscure admixtures, these blends, with no proper tool by which to untangle the components." – Phil Dick, The Man In The High Castle

"We are the first generation to feel the sting of climate change, and we are the last generation that can do something about it.” – Jay Inslee

“The ultimate test of man’s conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.” – Gaylord Nelson

"The Earth will not continue to offer its harvest, except with faithful stewardship. We cannot say we love the land and then take steps to destroy it for use by future generations.” – John Paul II

"The facts are there that we have created, man has, a self-inflicted wound that man has created through global warming.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger

“The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now.” – Chinese proverb

“I play fictitious characters often solving fictitious problems. I believe mankind has looked at climate change in the same way, as if it were fiction.” Leonardo DiCaprio

“As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you, and climate change is one of those exceptions.” – Al Gore

"Go into the world and do well, but more importantly, go into the world and do good." – Minor Myers Jr., President of Illinois Wesleyan University

“What’s the use of a fine house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on.” – Henry David Thoreau

"The general population doesn’t know what’s happening, and it doesn’t even know that it doesn’t know.” – Noam Chomsky

"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble—it's what you know that just ain't so." – Mark Twain

"I have lived with several Zen masters, all of them cats." – Eckhart Tolle