I've been to Villahermosa, Mexico, and New Orleans, LA, US
And I'm pretty sure neither will ever look the same. Both were beautiful cities, both centers of unique cultures.It's not any one weather event, even these, but the unrelenting showy pounding we're...
View ArticleAnd now I've been to the FCC hearing...
But I didn't get to talk to the FCC. Here is what happened....The hearing got called with almost no notice. For 4:00 - 10:00 PM on the Friday before a three day weekend. Bad FCC. But I'm local, I care...
View ArticleMass Transit is Good for Reading, and so is Amazon
I've been taking the bus a lot more lately, and I rode the 250 Express over to a play in Seattle last night. We were stuck in even-worse-than-usual accident-induced traffic, and I had a chance to...
View ArticleRural America
We went to the beach on the Washington coast for Thanksgiving. One of the things we noticed, at least in our rental house and rental houses next door to us, was that there was no recycling. We spent...
View ArticleScarcity
We had as much trouble finding LED lights as we had finding a Wii. Being tenacious people, we found both, but I was really happy to see the climate change friendly lights be in such demand. The small...
View ArticleThe Clean, Green Economy
“Peak Oil” is the time when half of the oil in the world has been harvested, and all harvests thereafter will be harder, slower, and more expensive. It’s a place where the price of oil has nowhere to...
View ArticleMissing From the Political Debate
It's always frustrating when something you predict doesn't happen. But it's worse when it's something that really matters. And global warming is just not as big of an issue as it should be. I thought...
View ArticlePredictions for 2008
Sorry for the long hiatus. I was busy finishing a book, which always takes a lot out of me, and we had the lovely chaos of the holidays (yes, we put up lights, but only LED lights, even on the tree)....
View ArticleYear End/Beginning - Personal Review and Goals
sWell, in 2007,I started taking the bus at least a few days a weekWe changed out the washer and dryer for energy star appliancesWe changed out half of the windows for more efficient onesWhen we...
View ArticleWeird Weather
Well, two days ago, I predicted the weird weather would continue this year. Here, it's cold and wintry, and kind of normal. But they've had tornadoes in the Midwest this morning. This is not a normal...
View ArticleBook Recommendation: Storm Chaser
I don't often get sent books to review - I do recommend books that I like on my own writing site, and Glen Hiemstra and I both occasionally recommend books on Glen's Futurist.com site (and I will...
View ArticleGlobal Warming Opinions
I spent the weekend at Rustycon, which is a small local science fiction convention in the Seattle area. I moderated two panels on global warming. Unlike the larger conventions, the panelists were...
View ArticleDoesn't Feel Like Global Warming
today. It's pretty cold all over the Northwest, reportedly from a La Nina year. Implies the ocean currents have a more immediate affect than the warming trend.On Friday morning, as I was leaving for a...
View ArticleBook Review: Vanishing World, the Endangered Arctic by Mireille De La Lez and...
I'm going to a more formal review of this book along with another one tonight or tomorrow over at Futurist.com, but I wanted to post my experience of reading it here.Vanishing World is a picture book....
View ArticleIs it just me, or is it getting worse out there?
This week's news stories highlight that the real data is worse than we thought. China's greenhouse gas emissions grew faster than projected. This means the IPCC report was based on data that looked...
View ArticleLife Imitating Art Imitating Life....
I was at a science fiction convention this weekend, and at one point there was a discussion between me and someone else about science fiction plots, and the other person mused that we would see more...
View ArticleSnow, and Cooling Public Budgets
I started this blog partly to record my observations and thoughts about climate change. There are other places better at the science.Today,climate change seems a lot more accurate than global warming,...
View ArticleIt's all short-term thinking
The part of climate change / rising carbon levels that we created before about a decade ago is excusable, maybe. But since then? After we understood that there was a very strong likelihood that our...
View ArticleIf a legendary Texas oilman says it....
The end quote of an interview that CNN published today with T. Boone Pickens is, "But we are going to have to do something different in America. You can't keep paying out $600 billion a year for...
View ArticleAcid Red Flags
Eight years ago, I heard oceanographer Sylvia Earle keynote an international GIS conference. Her talk deepened my understanding of the importance of the oceans, which I pretty much got anyway, and of...
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