- Sep 4
- 5 min
HEAT RASH
In recent weeks and months there has been a whole rash of articles about rising temperatures killing people. The reporting started with...
- Aug 14
- 4 min
COMPLEX FIRE
In 2020 a massive wildfire, known as the CZU Lightening Complex Fire , broke out in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Initially, several small...
- Aug 10
- 5 min
A CORAL PREDICT-AMENT
You’ve heard about the devastations to the world’s reef ecosystems. Most notably, the Great Barrier Reef off Australia’s east coast saw...
- Jun 23
- 33 min
DIAMOND'S IN THE ROUGH
Some folks really hate Jared Diamond. And those folks love hating Jared Diamond. As a good polymath, Diamond (with backgrounds in...
- Sep 29, 2023
- 5 min
A GOOD WAR?
Though I bought Seth Klein's " A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency " the moment it came out, back in 2020, only now...
- Aug 19, 2023
- 4 min
FLAME ON
I always like to recount Suzuki's story about smog. How when shooting an episode of The Nature of Things he and his crew went and sat at...
- Jul 29, 2023
- 7 min
THAT’S WEATHER, NOT CLIMATE
This week, authorities have given us things like: “July 2023 is set to be the hottest month ever recorded in human history.” “July isn't...
- Jun 12, 2023
- 9 min
TIME TO LOOK AGAIN
Oliver Stone just put out a new film promoting nuclear energy, titled Nuclear Now: Time to look again. So, just as he asks, let’s...
- May 29, 2023
- 11 min
UNPRECEDENTED
As with every fire season in recent memory, we’re being told this one is unprecedented. Fires in Alberta and Nova Scotia are said to be...
- Apr 3, 2023
- 5 min
THE NEW HUMAN EPOCH
I love John Green’s now-finished podcast Anthropocene Reviewed. Love it. It really is everything I want in a podcast. I’ve even been...