It is a long time since I believed in Hell, yet the following scenes are eerily reminiscent of what the nuns used to warn would be our destination if we weren’t good Catholic boys and girls. Advance to the 10:30 mark to watch the infernal action: Meanwhile, the rest of
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Politics and its Discontents: The New Normal
Watch or don’t watch the following; it really won’t make any difference, as the trajectory is already firmly set, momentum is building, and catastrophe can no longer be averted: Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Second Verse, Same As The First
The playlist is, I know, increasingly repetitive, but Earth-station has but a few records remaining on the turntable, and they will only be played louder and louder as the party winds down. Meanwhile, the wildfires in Greece, fueled by heat and drought, have claimed more than 70 lives: Recommend this
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Further Down The Road
For those whose sense of weather peril is somewhat muted, the following picture of a London park, the top part showing it in May, and the bottom part as it appears today thanks to prolonged drought and heat, may help awaken the senses and cognition about how far down the
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: I Wonder
When even the dimmest and most ideologically bent among us realize they backed the wrong pony when they ignored the warnings about climate change, and when it is far too late to do anything about it (as it almost is now), who will they blame? Will it be their political
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Severe Weather Events Linked to Some Guy Named Rossby
We owe a lot to Carl-Gustav Rossby, the Swedish-born American scientist who pioneered research into atmospheric thermodynamics at MIT and was instrumental in the university establishing America’s first department of meteorology. Today, Rossby’s name is most commonly associated with this: This image depicts what are sometimes called “Rossby Waves”, the
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