Carbon Dioxide and Climate Change for Dummies
This post may be a bit longer than usual, so get comfy. Click here for an index of earlier posts that touch on some of this. When I was at Physical Therapy a couple...
Category: Environmental
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...
This really ticks me off…
Sure, ticks like springtime when they can hide in moist grasslands and woods, but it seems like every season is tick season here in southwest Oregon. Having lived and worked in the woods for...
Lightning and Thunder and Bears, oh my…
This one’s gonna be short. Susie is with Bailey in Italy, and I escaped to the deck to try and find the universe. The good news is that it found me. I’ve been sitting...
E-waste and rational resource management
How many of you still have your original cellphone? Not your flip-phone, I’m talking about the brick you had before that. But hey, what did happen to your first flip-phone? Or your first beeper...
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...
Groundwater recharge and your checkbook
“Atmospheric Rivers” (a.k.a. the Pineapple Express) are all the rage these days, and those of us west of the Rockies are hoping that the current weather patterns will help put an end to the...
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...
Talcum Power and Asbestos
I read with interest the decision by Johnson & Johnson to discontinue the sale of talc-based baby powder by 2023. While J&J has not sold talcum powder in the United States and Canada since...
Cognitive Dissonance and the Earth
I read a short but interesting article from CleanTechnica titled “Cognitive Dissonance For Environmental and Earth Scientists”. In broad terms, this one dealt with human interactions with the planet… for good, but mostly for...
