Don’t Fly Ryan Air
With a man this ignorant [Michael O’Leary] heading up an airline I wouldn’t feel safe in his aircraft. In an …
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Chemicals + Runoff + Warming = Toxic Algae = Toxic Shellfish = Otter Deaths
While we’re waiting for the huge catastrophe that will finally focus the attention of two-thirds of the world’s population on …
Detective Story by Imre Kertész: A Review
Imre Kertész is the winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize for fiction. Damn! Another well known and serious writer not …
Plows, Plagues & Petroleum: A Review
William Ruddiman , one of the early paleoclimatologists —a climate scientist who studies climate in ages past– is the father …
Washington Rules by Andrew Bacevich; a Review
Andrew Bacevich, a historian of growing repute, a writer of substantial historical and social analysis and a self identified conservative …
Great Russian Heat Wave is Over
From Jeff Masters at Wunderblog: The Great Russian Heat Wave of 2010 ends A powerful cold front swept through Russia …
Crime and Punishment: A Film
Now that we’ve added Turner Classic Movies to our Tivo download list all sorts of odd and interesting movies are …
Recent Movies
I don’t know whether movie time has been short or time to think about them and set finger to keyboard …
The Great Russian Heat Wave Continues
The mid-term and long-term effects of climate change are looking like they’ve become short-term this summer. Burning in Russia. Drowning …
Ice 4x Size of Manhattan Breaks off Greenland Glacier
A 100-square-mile block of ice 600 feet thick has calved off one of the largest ocean-bordering glaciers in Greenland. The …
The Devil’s Holiday: Fire and Record Heat
Update below End of July and southern California becomes the devil’s holiday resort. Fires near Tehachipi; fires near Palmdale “The …
Climate Change: 9 Minutes 41 Seconds to Understanding
From a new (to me) climate change blog worth having at your fingertips: CapitalClimate Then there’s this: Scientific evidence that …