Why Boulder, Colorado?
With huge floods in Colorado, fires in California, twin hurricanes on the two coasts of Mexico, and all the other weather catastrophes of the summer season,…
Snuggling Up with the Keystone XL Pipeline
The arguments against digging up the tar sands of the northern U.S. states and Canada and sending the oil through the 1,700-mile Keystone XL pipeline to…
Naming Storms After Climate Change Deniers
Here’s a splendid notion from an organization called Climate Name Change. They’re proposing that hurricanes and storms should no longer be named after folks like Sandy,…
Days in the Life of a Forest Fire
Videographer Matt Johnson witnessed the three enormous forest fires that made up Colorado’s West Fork Complex Wildfire in June. He writes: [readon] I stayed a little…
Advanced-Stage Humanitis
What a month! And August is not even over. On top of the dozens of raging forest fires, flooded cities and other daily disasters, here’s some…
Global Warming As Sung by a Violin
A climate change “violin sonata” Last week, I posted the video of Daniel Crawford’s “cello sonata” on climate change – one note per year from 1880…
Global Warming As Sung by a Cello
The notion is simple: one note per year from 1880 to 2012 – the coldest year set to the lowest note (open C) on the cello;…
Fires Seen from Space Station
The Indonesian fire that’s burning down forests for palm oil plantations, killing more of the remaining orangutans, and choking nearby Singapore. [readon] The West Fork Complex…
Why Prince Charles’s Environmental Plan Can Never Work
As Britain’s Queen Elizabeth commemorates the 60th anniversary of her coronation, her son and heir, Prince Charles, worries increasingly about the kind of world his own…
A Week of Extreme Weather
A whole neighborhood of Granbury, Texas, was leveled in one of the tornadoes that tore up whole swaths of the United States last week. But that…
Greenhouse Gases Just Gone Through the Roof
Last week, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere went through the roof. Another roof. The previous roof was 350 parts per million (ppm) –…
Senator’s Remarkable Climate Sermon
An oration about climate change … loaded with Bible quotes … invoking the name of the Almighty in almost every other sentence. Must have been delivered…
How Humans Can Survive. (Should We?)
Newsweek leads off this week with an article about the future of humankind. It opens with how the bees are dying off and the enormous toll…
What Happened to My Home?
Take note, fellow humans: What we do to the koalas’ homes we’re ultimately doing to our own home. (This little person’s home was demolished in Australia’s…
Earth Day – Still All About Us
There’s something almost a little hubristic about our celebration of “Earth Day.” As though we generously give the Earth a day each year – and the…
As Ocean Rises, Kiribati Islands Plan to Evacuate
The remains of a gas station submerged as the waters rise over Kiribati. The President of Kiribati calls it “migration with dignity.” The ocean is rising.…
Israel, Palestine, Peace and Water
This morning, President Obama spoke clearly to the Israeli people about why they should seek peace with their neighbors, the Palestinians. He talked about the need…
Warmer Winters All Across the U.S.
Climate Central has an interactive map showing that, regardless of snowstorms, winters have been warming especially fast all across the United States.
How to Save the Planet
This infographic shows how a simple change in what we eat can make an enormous difference to the warming of the planet and to how we’re…
No Need to Smoke in Beijing!
You can save money on cigarettes in Beijing. No need to light up; just go outside and take a deep breath. You can see the vast…