https://www.skepticalscience.com
Skeptical Science website put together by John Cook. Who I met. This website outlines the History of Climate Science and the Big Picture.

This gives me a lot to think about. Thoughts to write down. But not right now, but it has to be done.
George Monbiot on David Attenborough

Some time. Soon.

I have learned a new word when I Googled "disaffected". I am disaffected. I love it. Maybe slightly less disaffected now ( Read more... )

So I'm sifting through old email, keeping some ditching the rest. Mitchell was reading, and maybe meeting and talking to John Quiggin on Water. This was back in early 2006, and the dam levels were at 32%. I don't even know what they are at now. John is an economist, still at UQ, and a socialist.

This is an old article from the Sydney Morning Herald, which is about what happens to people when they are stuck in the Hell that is Telstra. I don't know how Telstra has got like it is. I'm sure I could amass documents from the Interwebs, of people complaining at Telstra, and shaking their tiny fists at how we have to know these things. Like ( Read more... )

Sorry LJ, your new editor just doesn't cut it. Maybe I need to fiddle a bit more to figure out how to turn on the formatting of hyperlinks. Or formatting of anything, bold, italics. What gives? But it is the useful Preview function that I miss the most. Sending me a link that I can copy is, well, not as good as click on Preview. That's much ( Read more... )

Just off the top of my head...

The ice is melting as fast as it can. Antarctica, the Arctic Ice, and glaciers, polar and tropical. Did you know that there was a glacier in Indonesia? Does anyone know if it is still there?

When the Ice Free summer arrives in the Arctic, this will have catastrophic effects for polar bears, just to name one species, a ( Read more... )

Reddit keeps eating this post. So I put it here till I get some Internet. In Environmental_science, someone asks how fucked is our climate? And most of the peeps are saying, we are really fucked. I want to say.

We have 10 years. This is like a buffer. Every year that goes by means it gets less likely that any interventions will work, and changes ( Read more... )

Increasing ecospiritual capital, tranquility, and environmental quality; a remedy for solastalgia?


Solastalgia is defined by one author and recounted on Wikipedia as crisis caused by the loss of the Ease that comes from being in Nature. It also includes the anxiety from feeling powerless to act in the environmental changes. Sylvie Shaw wrote ( Read more... )

Max Roser and Our World In DataFantastic, what a treasure trove this is. This is what I got out of it. And what you might get too, if you read it ( Read more... )