If you want to understand the contradictions of life in 21st century west, there are two books you must read: John Wesley Powell’s Report on the Arid Lands, and Edward Abbey’s The Monkey Wrench Gang. You also must understand that both were deeply insightful, and that both were also full of crap, and thinking through …
IPCC Precipitation Map Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. By what seems like a series of coincidences (or not?), I’ve been reading and writing and trying to write lately about maps – the information in them, the things cartographers leave out of them, their implications for understanding things about the world around us, and also the choices …
Who knew there was skiing in Bolivia? Not any more, apparently: Their pride in the ski resort here, the only one in Bolivia, soon gives way to a grim acceptance that the glacier that once surrounded the lodge with copious amounts of snow and ice is melting fast. Attributing the melting to the growing emission …
I tried my hardest, but despite my best efforts I just can’t avoid writing about the IPCC. I’ve gotta tell folks in New Mexico something. Hey, it could be worse. At least we don’t really see hurricanes, what with not having any oceans nearby. Much more tomorrow.
On MSM perfidy….