We’re already seeing the early signs of major disruptions. Think about the extreme weather events, the scarcity of resources, and how unreliable our traditional energy sys… Read More

The Northward March of Agriculture One of the most visible consequences of severe climate change will be the massive northward shift of agricultural zones. The 2012 Plant Hardiness Zone&Acir… Read More

Coastal regions stand on the front lines of climate change. The strategies outlined here—from engineered defenses to managed retreat, from floating cities to ecosystem-based adaptation… Read More

Water, the foundation of our civilization and the world's ecosystems, is growing scarce and will become more so in the coming years. Drastic adaptations are necessary. Continue reading &rarr… Read More

In a warming world, geoengineering may indeed become unavoidable. Given the stakes and current trajectory, it would be irresponsible not to research and prepare for potential geoengineering… Read More

Planet Earth is already straining under the 400-billion-pound weight of eight billion humans (more than all other mammals combined). In a world that may warm by 4 or 5°C, much of the lan… Read More

An aside that supports my argument for worst-case scenario climate adaptation planning. Continue reading → Read More

In times of crisis, there's often a push towards autocratic rule. The argument is that centralized, authoritarian control can implement necessary changes more quickly and efficiently. Howeve… Read More

The biosphere - the thin layer of life encompassing our planet - is under assault. Our activities are disrupting every level of biological organization, from genes to ecosystems. The general… Read More

Even if we somehow achieved global consensus on the need for drastic action (which seems highly unlikely given current geopolitical tensions), the scale of transformation required is stagger… Read More

To meaningfully reverse warming, we'd need to remove hundreds of gigatons (one billion tons) of CO2 from the atmosphere (Rubin et al. 2012). Current carbon capture technologies are woefully… Read More

the carbon dioxide already in our atmosphere will continue to warm the planet for hundreds of years. Continue reading → Read More

Climate change may leave much of the globe uninhabitable during our lifetimes. Continue reading → Read More

Another critique of Juniper eradication on public land: “The Voluntary Grazing Permit Retirement Act could remove livestock from much of the sage grouse habitat with far better consequ… Read More

A well-documented case of efforts by the U. S. Bureau of Land Management to conduct abusive mismanagement of public lands. Please take a look. The Invasion of the Pinyon Juniper – The… Read More

The latest Corr Syl chapter, No. 5, is now available. Continue reading → Read More

"Corr Syl on Ghost is a new science-fiction novel continuing the saga from "The H. Sapiens Problem." Corr and his group face interstellar creatures threatening Earth. The serial format offer… Read More

This edition has added weeds and a fully revised introduction. Continue reading → Read More

Originally posted on SoundEagle 🦅ೋღஜஇ: Misquotation Pandemic and Disinformation Polemic: Mind Pollution by Viral Falsity ⚠️Notes: Hovering with a… Read More

AI Literary Collaboration Familiar Innovations that changed human life include wheels and sails for transport, the multifaceted industrial revolution in material goods production, photograph… Read More

Human population, pollution, and biodiversity are far more important than vaccine concerns. Continue reading → Read More

Defending Lies and Hiding Truth Example of an informal fallacy, the false equivalence fallacy. The following is from Wikipedia. After reading the list, I concluded that skepticism… Read More

But what if growth is at best doing little to fix the world’s problems, and at worst fostering the destruction of the planet and jeopardizing its future? Continue reading &ra… Read More

Learn what is causing biodiversity loss and why biodiversity is important. Continue reading → Read More

The Cherokee Tribe is a sovereign nation with rights guaranteed by a treaty ratified by the U. S. Congress and signed by the U. S. President. The Tribe’s relationship with the United&n… Read More

So little, but it’s something. Posted here just to keep the record. Set of government measures will include halting most live animal exports and a ban on hunting trophy imports Animals… Read More

COVID-19 battle allowing spread of other infectious diseases in India. Continue reading → Read More

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Today is #WeedAppreciationDay. Before humans, weeds were almost entirely beneficial for Earth’s ecosystems. Problems began when we transported weeds across natural barriers created by… Read More

"The Living Planet Index tracked 20,811 populations of 4,392 vertebrate species and it recorded a 68 percent decline between 1970 and 2016. Over-consumption by humans is primarily to bl… Read More

population's daughter product, climate change, might continue destroying life long after Humans are gone.  Continue reading → Read More

Scientists see a problem, think of solutions, and test the solutions. It doesn't matter if it's a stalled car or a shooting star. Continue reading → Read More

We are in a planetary recession marked by biodiversity collapse, climatic upheavals, freshwater shortages, global toxification, and unprecedented human and nonhuman displacements (Ripple et… Read More

Illustrated guide to 146 bird species seen at Coldwater Farm during the first two decades of the Twenty-first Century. Continue reading → Read More

POSTCRIPT I published the blog post below in 2017. It discusses a scientific analysis and climate-change warning published in the journal Nature. The critical element of the scientists&rsquo… Read More

The first thought produced by Stinknet is that its bright yellow flowers are beautiful. The next thought, however, is that something stinks. Stinknet produces resinous sap that smells like a… Read More

The conservation easement will protect the farm from all future development. We will continue to occupy our house and pay property taxes, but no other building will ever be permitted. Contin… Read More

“The numbers are staggering,” says the former Romanian environment minister. “I hope we aren’t the first species to document our own extinction.” Continue readi… Read More

As the majority of the world's citizens become aware that both climate and extinction are in danger of spiraling out of control, there are growing efforts to direct our governments to take a… Read More

This spring's record-setting storms are just the beginning. In fact, in a few years they will seem quite feeble compared to what's coming. Continue reading → Read More

Weeds are those plants that quickly colonize damaged sites and protect the soil while the original plants move back in. Continue reading → Read More

You may wish to join in the ". . . upcoming global day of public demonstrations on March 15th, with details available at fridaysforfuture.org.  Continue reading → Read More

Trump and Republicans such as Mitch McConnell want the U. S. to become a Fascist country controlled by and for the wealthy. Sanders and Progressives such as AOC want the country to become a… Read More

Originally posted on strange behaviors: Australia’s southern black-throated finch: Going, going … This one caught my eye because it’s such a pretty bird, and because of th… Read More

Climate change is occurring faster than expected. Continue reading → Read More

Originally posted on Motivation, & the Environment: We live in an age that has a lot environmental challenges threatening the existence of living and non-living things. This Earth in whi… Read More

"Trump's wall would destroy an extraordinary web of biodiversity that evolved over millions of years" --Jennifer R. B. Miller Continue reading → Read More

Here are drawings and photographs of the 153 weed species observed or expected to appear at Coldwater Farm through 2018. Continue reading → Read More

The introduced weeds that were more efficient than natives were at extracting moisture and nutrients from desert soils invaded the desert vegetation, filled the gaps between perennial plants… Read More

Photographs of the Birds of Coldwater Farm Here are pictures of the 137 birds observed at Coldwater Farm through 2017. Click photographs to see photographer credits in image titles. For info… Read More

The human population has grown without limits and like bacteria in a petri dish, we are using up the Earth's resources. Continue reading → Read More

Along with budgeting and seeking public support, determining priorities is an essential element of weed-control strategy. Continue reading → Read More

"Species population declines are especially pronounced in the tropics, with South and Central America suffering the most dramatic decline, an 89 percent loss compared to 1970," reads the rep… Read More

If we could limit emissions and subsequent temperature rise to 1.5 degrees celsius, the storms would continue to grow, but away from the coasts, little flood walls and rooftop solar panels w… Read More

Weed control efforts are more successful when strategy and tactics are carefully planned in advance. They begin with these concepts: Continue reading → Read More

Eventually, a new balance will be struck between incoming solar energy and outgoing heat. Reaching the new balance will take hundreds, probably thousands, of years. Earth will be uninhabitab… Read More

"How can we convince people to pay for something we have done for profit? Why would anyone be willing to do that?" Continue reading → Read More

"Our study suggests that human-induced global warming of two degrees Celsius may trigger other Earth system processes, often called "feedbacks," that can drive further warming - even if we s… Read More

The best habitats for wildlife, the ones along streams, in deep shaded canyons, and those in areas of diverse topography will sustain more wildlife as climate changes. Preserving those habit… Read More

Humanity is on a collision course with Nature. A damaged Nature will survive. We may not. We must change course to avert an ecological disaster. Continue reading → Read More

Like band-aids on skinned knees, weeds protect soil from erosion by wind and water. This is good, and should be good enough for us to be selective (not stereotyping) in our attitude toward w… Read More

We know that our house, sheds, and pastures replaced habitat that wild animals could use. As we have learned the importance of wild plants and animals, we have realized that the land was not… Read More

The research found that today, humans and livestock account for 96% of all animals on Earth. Continue reading → Read More

Intensive commercial farming has become increasingly common on refuge lands, triggering escalating use of highly toxic pesticides that threaten the long-term health of these sensitive habita… Read More

In their rapid colonization of soil exposed by fires, floods, and grazing animals, weeds resemble the human specialists we label Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs). Weeds are the first res… Read More

Over the 40-year period ending in 2012, more than half the animals on Earth disappeared. Continue reading → Read More

"With data on the best known vertebrate species, and a lot of additional information from fossil studies and genetics, we can put the fraction of species disappearing each year at upward of… Read More

GR: Today is National Weed Appreciation Day. As the benefits of weeds are the subject of my new book, I thought it appropriate to mention the day. My soon-to-be-published book describes and… Read More

GR:  Taking a longer view of this subject, the demise of Phoenix and its satellite towns might be good for the land and for people because it will give natural systems an opportunity to… Read More

Weeds A draft of my new weed book is available for review. Download the .PDF if you want to take a look. Weeds of Dewey-Humboldt SCREEN RES PDF   Read More

Originally posted on Antinuclear: Independent media: Our democracy depends on it, Independent Australia.  Cathy McQueen 17 January 2018,    “…&hell… Read More

Like any Ponzi scheme, this global growth frenzy is based on maintaining the illusion for as long as possible. Once it becomes clear that this rate of growth is truly unsustainable, the whol… Read More

"Our results suggest that achieving any given global temperature stabilization target will require steeper greenhouse gas emissions reductions than previously calculated." Continue reading… Read More

Climate change is just one of the approaching disasters. Continue reading → Read More

More than 15,000 scientists have signed a chilling article titled “World Scientists' Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice," urging global leaders to save the planet from envi… Read More

Hopes that global emissions had peaked during the past three years were likely premature. However, Global Carbon Project researchers say that global emissions are unlikely to retur… Read More

". . . I’m afraid I cannot echo the Professor’s optimism. The future of the Earth he foresees where only the toughest few survive is a planet desperately diminished in richness a… Read More

Originally posted on robertscribbler: Republicans in Congress seem more concerned with cutting taxes for the rich than dealing with present and worsening problems like Russian interference i… Read More

The campaign to maintain large old-growth forests is lost. What old forests remain are emasculated fragments of their former ecological and evolutionary brilliance. Earth’s old-growth… Read More

HR 2936, sponsored by Rep. Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.), limits public comment and environmental review under the National Environmental Policy Act. Under the guise of reducing forest fires, the… Read More

Animal numbers will probably continue to fall for at least the next three years. So, by 2020, roughly only three out of the ten animals around us in 1970 will remain. The number will continu… Read More

Global tree cover loss reached a record 29.7 million hectares (73.4 million acres) in 2016, according to new data from the University of Maryland released today on Global Forest Watch. The l… Read More

According to Thursday’s summary from Calfire, a total of 6,900 homes, businesses, and other structures were destroyed across northern and southern California. The fires have burned ove… Read More

By our calculation, pea- and soy-based alternative meat products with similar nutritional amino acid value to Nanno could be produced using 6.4 times less freshwater than beef, but would req… Read More

Enbridge's Line 67, the Alberta Clipper, can pump nearly 900,000 barrels of tar sands oil across the Canadian border every day. Continue reading → Read More

Another way of sampling insects – car windscreens – has often been anecdotally used to suggest a major decline, with people remembering many more bugs squashed on their windscree… Read More

Hundreds of fires in both countries are being fanned by winds from Hurricane Ophelia in the north, currently barreling towards Ireland, and encouraged by extremely dry terrain from a scorchi… Read More

Dr. Dourson’s consistent endorsement of chemical safety standards that not only match industry’s views, but are also significantly less protective than EPA and other regulators h… Read More

". . . human carelessness [and lightening] often provides the ignition sources for fires in areas like Northern California. However, without the underlying severe climate conditions, such fi… Read More

Perhaps our Congresspeople see themselves as wise Walruses, but instead of asking ". . . why the sea is boiling hot--and whether pigs have wings", they wish to ask if they can stop the fores… Read More

1,000,000,000 birds are killed every year in the United States as they unwittingly fly into the windows of our man-made structures. Continue reading → Read More

“We had a Clean Power Plan. What we’re getting is a Dirty Power Plan,” said David Doniger, senior attorney for climate and clean air at the Natural Resources Defense Counci… Read More

". . . human activities could be “tipping the climate into an intermediate period of climate changes…. We can face a climate change that happens just as fast as the financial cr… Read More

The 'revolving door' between governments and industry creates close ties that often prevent objective regulation of business activities. Continue reading → Read More

As the climate system strives to reach a new equilibrium, droughts and heatwaves will become more frequent, large fires will become more common, and weed dominated landscapes will form. Cont… Read More

Secret government-industry cooperation disclosed by whistleblowers and investigators shows disregard for human life. Continue reading → Read More

Researchers found that 69% of deforestation came from small scale projects. Continue reading → Read More

"If we're to keep global temperatures from rising to dangerous levels, we need to drastically reduce emissions and greatly increase forests' ability to absorb and store carbon." Continue rea… Read More

If you allow a few clumps to grow, you will get to enjoy watching the acrobatics of Lesser Goldfinches that relish Barnyard Grass seeds. The small birds hang (often upside down) on drooping… Read More

Larkspur’s foliage poisons cattle, but the flowers are fabulous insect magnets. Butterflies, bees, flies, and moths of many species like the nectar. Around my house, it’s the mos… Read More