This weekend is the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, which devastated New Orleans, and much of the Gulf Coast region. Perhaps the best way to start this post is to watch this video which I embeded from the nola.com Hurricane Katrina page. The video is a...
In my last post on this blog, I discussed how Native science can inform about global climate change. Some might say this is a stretch. I do not. In the Native science view of the environment, human communities are an integral part of ecological systems. This is a...
I wrote to a friend of mine who lives in Moscow, Russia to find out how he was doing with the extreme heat and fires that are creating the worst air pollution event in Moscow's history. He told me that he has been able to escape the heat by going to his daughter's...
Yesterday, I reported that the South Dakota state legislature moved a bill along that calls for a balanced teaching of global warming, "especially since global warming is a scientific theory and not a proven fact," to quote HR1009. This notion of using "theory" in...
Yesterday, I reported that the South Dakota state legislature moved a bill along that calls for a balanced teaching of global warming, "especially since global warming is a scientific theory and not a proven fact," to quote HR1009. This notion of using "theory" in...
Yes, it did snow today in Atlanta, and indeed all around the southeastern region of the USA. It normally does not snow in March in Atlanta. This year has been the year snow, especially in the eastern part of the USA. Some pundants, and especially one US Senator have...
