Confirmation: toxic oil covers floor of Gulf of Mexico
Satellight image from Deepwater Horizon disaster May 2010. It doesn’t show the oil UNDERWATER. from Wikileaks Commons. Per a news article in Live Science from February 2nd (yesterday), there’s this...
View Articleanybody else feel this way?
not a believer in zombies, but sometimes the stupidity feels like my brains are being eaten. Screen dump Plants and Zombies game. First the political, then the personal. Anybody else feel this way...
View ArticleSo Long, it’s been good ta know yuh…
The Weavers, who sang a bland version of Woody Guthrie’s ‘So Long It’s Been Good To Know Yuh’ on national TV. Woody Guthrie’s original version is darker, though… Over the past week, I was suddenly...
View ArticleThe search for a man on horseback
A Nazi Propaganda picture of some repute. Noam Chomsky has just crossed a Rubicon. In a recent interview with Chris Hedges, Chomsky lays out his fears for the US and what is happening here: “I have...
View ArticleBP Oil Spill commemoration/performance next Monday!
Dan’s notes: I will be performing a really new monologue at this event, during which I might (or I might not) blow blues harmonica. The basis of my play–imagine the Seventh Seal if they cast Jimmy...
View ArticleDestroying priceless art the Western Way
Gothamist picture of Protest at the new Whitney museum. the building sits atop a huge natural gas pipeline the same size as one that blew up in San Bruno California a few years ago. What could possibly...
View ArticleCalling it what it is–the euphemism of ‘Climate Change’
Walruses caught out by swiftly melting ice. From NASA website. The story has recently broken through the MSM that we’ve reached 400 parts Per Million of carbon dioxide in Mister atmosphere. The thing...
View ArticleBrooklyn Culture Jam Radio–the E word
The timeline for human extinction as laid out in Sam Carana’s methane chart. This week, people who are following issues with ‘climate change’ were treated to numerous articles reporting that...
View ArticleLies we tell ourselves about climate change
HEY! You Crazy kids who think we can run the world on renewables, GET OFF MY LAWN! There’s an article I’ve been looking at recently from Resilience dot org, and it weighs in heavily against...
View Article10.03.2015: Does Earth have an expiration date?
Chart on runaway warming of the Arctic circulated by the Arctic methane Emergency Group. One of the confounding realities of global warming theory has been that nobody with the requisite knowledge of...
View ArticleDylann Roof’s mental health and other delusions
This photo provided by Charleston County Sheriff’s Office shows Dylann Roof, Thursday, June 18, 2015. Roof, 21, was arrested Thursday in the slayings of several people Wednesday, including the pastor,...
View ArticleHeat waves 2015–thousands dead already
the iconic photo from India, where a recent heat wave melted asphalt. From Hindustan Times. We’ve been treated (if that’s the right word) to a number of heat waves already this year. The northern...
View ArticleGreece melts down; the world starts to melt with it
the Eurozone might be short a star soon. Image from Reuters. As I type this, the results have come in and the Greek electorate has voted against the austerity measures demanded by the EU (primarily...
View ArticleThe Dead Zone–parsing out the past year
This is me in my semi-formal bike shirt standing with my (now )11,000 mile bike. Riding offers me shelter from the storm. This is (per WordPress math) my 400th blog posting. I started my blog in 2012...
View Article“Faster than Previously Expected”–a fun Google Game!
The above is Kevin Hester. He’s a longtime activist out of Kiwi Land, and he has been instrumental in getting out the message about climate calamity (specifically near term extinction) in his part of...
View ArticleNear Term Human Extinction 101
From the Near Term Human Extinction support group. July 15. High temperatures from Navuat, Canada (in the Arctic Circle) Vs. Melbourne Australia I have had a number of wonderful/sad/bittersweet/...
View ArticleMore heroes for unheroic times
Seven people who hung off a bridge to stop Shell’s flotilla of ships bound for the Arctic oilfields. Have you seen this picture? Probably not. Translated from the FB page for Greenpeace Argentina (I’ve...
View ArticleKeeping up the fight when the fight is lost
What Phil Berrigan once told a prosecutor at a Plowshares trial. One of the issues that hangs up discussions of near term human extinction (especially among those who understand that we might well be...
View ArticleThe symbol for our predicament
the symbol for near-term extinction. Put online by an acquaintance. There have been many symbols and logos for climate change, global warming, and activism against environmental devastation. I’ve...
View ArticleThe Arctic sea ice watch 2015
A graph of Arctic ice and sample years of extent. See the way the red line for 2015 drifts down? not good. I don’t have much to contribute here except to note that Robin Westenra, whose site I’m...
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