Solar Flares
You may think this news doesn’t affect you: Global Positioning System devices around the world were briefly but significantly disrupted …
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Global Catastrophe Report
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has released its second report. http://www.ipcc.ch/ 24 page summary for policy makers (pdf) “Climate …
Actually From Albuquerque
A friend, Ellen Watson sends this on. “The poet Naomi Shihab Nye wrote up this Albuquerque Airport experience and sent …
Water Water Waterless
There is a very striking photo heading this article in the NY Times — a pier, once used for fishing …
Climate Change: Hurricane Season
Last year the hurricane season was relatively mild, especially in contrast to the prior year of Katrina infamy. “There, see!’ …
War Tax Resistance
“Dorothy Hansen used to pay her taxes faithfully every year — until the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. Since …
Mercenary Armies
For a truly distressing day you could do no worse than read Jeremy Scahill’s Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s …
Tech Tip: JOTT
Tech-tip As some of you know I’ve been making my financial way in the world for about 20 years as …
Things I Didn’t Know I Loved
by Nazim Hikmet Things I Didn’t Know I Loved it’s 1962 March 28th I’m sitting by the window on the …
Climate Change Focusing
Sydney, Australia’s largest city, has a foreshadowing, anti-celebration, for climate change. Throughout the city of about 4 million people, residents …
Glacier Breeding Farms
Climatologists Secure Funding To Breed Glaciers In Captivity “FAIRBANKS, AK—Researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration received a $42 …
California Heatin’
“Average temperatures in California rose almost one degree Celsius (nearly two degrees Fahrenheit) during the second half of the 20th …