It’s been a few weeks since you’ve heard from me as I was on vacation. My son Zack (35) and I went on a wilderness kayaking trip on the Allagash River in very northern Maine with a group from Sierra Club. We had a great time. It was so very nice to get removed from civilization for 8 days and just relax.…
It’s been a few weeks since my last post as I took some time off to enjoy the summer as it quickly slips away from us all. Unfortunately, the deteriorating climate doesn’t take a vacation. You’ve undoubtedly heard about the UN report that documents how dire and irreversible the climate circumstances are. (See the long article posted at the end of my portion.)…
I was listening to the radio yesterday and the “disk jockey” asked the listeners what covid habit you got into you were going to get ride of/change now that restrictions are being lifted a bit. I realized that one that I have fallen into is writing this article pretty much every Sunday. You may have noticed, but probably not, that I missed…
Happy Father’s Day and first day of summer! Today’s article is about science and a new way of measuring what we humans are doing to our atmosphere and subsequently the climate. Here’s a fundamental premise of the piece that follows. “The miracle of life on Earth hinges on a delicate balance. The sun’s rays enter the Earth’s atmosphere, warming the planet. At the…
Recently, I’ve mostly been writing about what is going to happen to our society as a result of a warmer climate. Real estate, insurance, finance, fossil fuel industry, carbon taxes, transportation (especially cars and trucks), etc. I decided today to remind everyone why these consequences are all going to happen. Paraphrasing what someone once said, It’s the Climate Stupid. As CO2…
I start today by reiterating my long standing prediction that by 2030 all new cars (and increasingly it looks like light duty trucks and maybe even some heavy duty ones too) sold in the U.S. will be fully electric or drive 95% of the time on electricity. Back in 2014 when I first made a bet on this it was pretty…
Boy oh boy. A guy can’t go on vacation for a couple of weeks without the world turning up side down. Yeah, after a year and a half barely leaving my house and now that the whole family is fully vaccinated, we took a nice break on the beach for a couple of weeks. It sure felt good! Fishing, tennis,…
I am trying something a little different today. I want to see if this is an improvement from what I have done in the past. Let me know what you think after you’ve had a chance to check it out. Email me back with a thumbs up or down, yes or no, or some such indicator. I am going to go…
After a couple of weeks of posting current headlines about what is happening around the country and globe relating to climate change, I was thinking that this week I’d tackle just one topic, one article, and get into it in more depth. But as I reviewed the articles that I had read and saved for this publication I was once…
MANY years ago when my kids were little (the youngest is 31 now) we had a Beetlejuice doll. It was about 18 inches tall and when you pulled a string it would say “Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice” and its head would spin around. It would freak out our dog and at one point he tore the thing apart leaving only the head and…