Wildfire Suppression
Speaking only for myself, for the most part I blame Smokey Bear. Susie and I needed to go to the coast last Sunday, and had a chance to travel down Highway 199 along the...
Category: Climate Change
Climate change and sea level rise
How long can you tread water? It’s become almost a daily bluster: articles bemoaning the reality of climate change and how it is going to destroy the earth and lead to the end of...
Fusion and Clean Energy
The big science news of the week (possibly the decade, if not the century) comes out of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, where nuclear physicists at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) finally...
Kill Your Car?
The tagline on the noon news was enough all by itself: “California to ban the sale of gas-powered vehicles by 2035.” This is another one of those ideas that sounds so good, and yet...
Turn Around, Don’t Drown
Oh my! The images and videos of the August 2022 flooding in Death Valley, California, are certainly impressive. Only 1.46 inches of rainfall were recorded at the Furnace Creek Visitor’s Center, but that was...
Here Comes the Sun…
I spent much of my high school years on a surfboard. It became a full-throated obsession during my senior year when the school test-drove a new program called “Self-Imposed Scheduling.” If you were in...
Climate Change?
Europe — indeed much of the northern hemisphere, thanks to five separate high-pressure domes — is sweltering under an unprecedented heat wave: airport schedules disrupted because runways are buckling… older folks dying from heatstroke…...
