1. Administering protection of the atmosphere hurts our economy
2. The environment is the air we breathe
3. Wealth and power control the media and we are powerless to change that
4. The environment is the water we drink
5. Legal proceedings bury the truth, ignore the risks, and shield gluttony
6. The environment is the food we eat
7. Morality is a technique for herding fools since attack-for-gain is empire
8. The environment, our ecosystem, is this planet
9. Using technology our children might adapt, because we are a clever species
10. In this entire universe, just this planet sustains the existence of our kind  Read more...

You may not remember it, but the noun weather once had simple adjectives associated with it like hot, wet, cold, rainy, sunny, and sometimes stormy. Then, a dozen or so years ago, new adjectives began to sidle up next to weather: wacky, bizarre, cyclical, unpredictable, and coincidental. This last year, an extreme class of adjectives has come forward; words usually reserved for war, or other cataclysmic events. Adjectives like heartbreaking, devastating, massive, catastrophic, calamitous, and threat-multiplier, have all emerged next to weather. This shift has fostered worldwide concern about anthropogenic forcing of the adjective balance and a call for a reduction in adjective use.  Read more...

A CSIRO marine and atmospheric research team has reported findings that climate change causes an increase in the jellyfish population. “The team believes that for the first time, water conditions could lead to what they call a jellyfish-stable-state, in which jellyfish rule the oceans…”

Oh, fear, agony, concern…Snore…

Oops, let’s try again by enlivening the facts surrounding those slimy denizens of the deep: How a jellyfish-stable-state will ruin the world–stung by a prosaic coma, the article approaches death’s door.  Read more...