What happened to my water?
One of the hot button topics again splashing across the media is the looming global water crisis. The article that prompted this post was gleaned from the CNN website on 25 February 2024, but...
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Plastic Water Bottles: Friend or Foe?
I read yet another article about the dangers of plastics (this time from Newsweek on 09 January, 2024). I could go on and on about the possible permutations of the controversy and potential dangers...
Dinosaur Extinction and Nuclear Winter
I saw an article on the Fox website that discussed the extinction of the dinosaurs approximately sixty-six million years ago, marking the end of both the Mesozoic Era and the Cretaceous Period. The article,...
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...
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...
A couple good reads…
I’d like to recommend a couple books that I’ve read and highly recommend for anyone who is looking to expand their knowledge of the earth, and appreciates pictures to help them along the way...
Pompeii vs. Herculaneum in 79 A.D.
Susie just loves to visit Italy, and suffers the twenty-plus hour one-way trip whenever she can find the time (and airfare). I tagged along several years ago, and while the focaccia bread on the...
Strickler’s Laws of GeoFantasy
I love being a geologist. Along with being able to spend my life outside and in nature (and drink a lot of beer in my salad days — it’s one of the requirements for...
A Brief Introduction to Earthquakes
Stress… it can be a big deal. We all get stress all the time — from any number of sources and in a dog’s breakfast of exotic flavors and intensities. Sometimes we bend and...
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...
