Just finished reading Donna Laframboise’s expose of the IPCC, The Delinquent Teenager who was mistaken for the world’s top climate expert. Laframboise is a Canadian journalist, not an American climate denier, and yes, the book did lower my esteem for the IPCC. But that doesn’t mean that its conclusions (such as CO2 warms the atmosphere, …
Category: environment
Sep 18 2025
…with Alberta’s help
I once said that Trump was going to single-handedly destroy Earth. I was wrong. Alberta’s going to help. (I guess Danielle Smith hasn’t read Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything.)
Sep 07 2025
“… getting exponentially worse …
from Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update, Donella Meadows et al. 2004 “Scientists do know that there have been temperature upheavals on earth in the past … “But the most important message … is that current atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide and methane are far higher than they have been for 160,000 years. … There …
Aug 28 2025
from The Sheep Look Up, John Brunner (1972)
“‘You and your ancestors treated the world like a fucking great toilet bowl.’” p112 “‘The rich countries have ruined what they own, so they’re out to steal from the people who have a little left. They want the copper, the zinc, the tin, the oil. And of course there’s the timber, which is getting scarce.’” …
Aug 24 2025
from ” Required awareness to handle climate change is impossible” by Godofredo Aravena
“Based on my experience, average human has, let´s say, a six-dimensional perception of the world. Own body, family, house, job, grocery store (stores in general) and neighborhood. Anything beyond this limits, it is outside of a truly understanding (something happens out there, but nobody dares to find out what and how). Nation is a distant …
Aug 22 2025
“… and when they notice the screams …”
“And we keep making these choices, every day, choosing dams over salmon, oil over whales, cars over polar bears, death over life. And when I say we keep making these choices, I do not mean you and me — we have essentially nothing to do with it — I mean the politicians and CEOs who …
Aug 18 2025
Dear Americans-who-blame-us-for-the-smoke
Dear Americans-who-blame-us-for-the-smoke: “If Canada can’t get these wildfires under control, they need to face real consequences … We won’t sit back while our air becomes a health hazard.” So says Rep. Calvin Callahan from Wisconsin and others from Iowa, Minnesota, New York, and North Dakota who filed a formal complaint. Against Canada. Excuse me? EXCUSE …
Jul 29 2025
These fires brought to you by …
Watching the weather network, with the ads: the fires in Turkey brought to you by Mitsubishi’s new crossover SUV, the Outlander. Literally brought to you by. It’s exactly like an ad for guns showing right after news of a school shooting. See the problem? How can they, the people behind the weather network, can be …
Jul 27 2025
This Changes Everything changed nothing.
This Changes Everything is the most important book ever written. Because it changed nothing. You need to read the book in order to understand my point. And therein lies the problem: people don’t read anymore. Almost half (48.5%) of Americans haven’t read a single book in the past year. And, surprising to me, the U.S. …
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