Deep Sea Mining: Part 2
Before we jump into the deep water, a couple possibly irrelevant tangents: I love the earth, am fascinated by its processes, and wish it a long and happy life. Anybody who has opened their...
Tagged: Hydrosphere
Desalination (and political suicide?)
Another short one. I tried to abandon poli-sci over fifty years ago, but here I am… old and staring down toward the end of the tunnel, and sucked back into the swamp (thanks DD)....
It’s Still All About the Water
This one will be short, but really, what is there to say at this point when absolutely none of us know what is actually happening? A recent article in the New York Times titled...
Oops, Our Bad…
Real science — by definition — is open to continuing reinterpretations as more data become available, often leading to adjustments of accepted models. An excellent example of this unavoidable truism was the basis of...
Sorry, Kids…
In the interest of tying to maintain a positive outlook on yet another “Friday the 13th”, this one will be real short… Readers of this blog already know two things: 1) I try as...
Going, Going… Gone?
In their continuing efforts to dismantle the United States and remove it from its traditional place as a leader in scientific research and understanding, the current administration is now taking aim at the National...
The Warm Blob is Heating Up
This one will be short, but no less important for its brevity. Whether we’re concerned with climate, economics, or social unrest, it seems that many in our country are making a concerted effort to...
Going Up?
There have been a flood of articles over the past couple days with the same overarching message: the climate crisis is irreversible and we have already moved beyond the threshold we’d need to stay...
Barometric Air Pressure 101
A Request… Please hit the Subscribe button and sign up for updates to this blog. It costs you nothing and gives me nothing, other than a bit of emotional validation for my efforts. What...
A Search for Alien Life
Are we alone in the universe? Whether you are coming at this as a biologist, anthropologist, or religious scholar, this is a question which has occupied — and befuddled — thinking minds for centuries,...
