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Outside of Normal: Sea Ice Loss 2012 [video]
Peter Sinclair of Climate Denial Crock of the Week is one of the finest climate hawks around, with his always spot-on, well-researched and -argued videos explaining climate science and attacking climate change denial. Here is a recent vid he put together for the Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media relating to this year’s devastating summer sea ice […]
Mitt Romney, the Paranoia Candidate
September 19, 2012
Conservative collectives like the Republican Party are often noted for their domination by White male paranoia, by White males, that is, so afraid of losing their priority and privileges that they’re half-convinced they’ve lost them already. These are people with characteristically exaggerated notions of their own importance and superiority, and matching notions of the unimportance […]
Our Biggest Challenge (Music video)
September 14, 2012
The following climate change video, put together by the musical folk at Symphony of Science, features the most famous mutton-chops in science fiction, Isaac Asimov, which is already enough to sell it to me. But Bill Nye, the (musical) science guy, in a neon-blue polka dot bowtie helps too. I didn’t read Asimov only for his science fiction, […]
Pippa Goes Rogue
September 13, 2012
If you haven’t seen this video yet, why then it’s time to do it now. As well as talking about climate change, it is also a commentary on McNews and the failure of journalism. (Perhaps we need a little more rogue, a little less numb.)
History Is a Telescope
September 12, 2012
Computers in the Jungle, Pt. 2. Continued from The Measure of Stone Age Skulls. An excerpt from Featherfolk, a work in progress. In the story of humanity, actual history, history as told, history as memory, is as ancient as language. Yet until quite recently in Western culture, only written sources were accepted for the production of […]
The Measure of Stone Age Skulls
September 10, 2012
The following is an exerpt from Featherfolk, a work in progress. Computers in the Jungle: A Perspective on Civilization Pt 1 Civilized is superior to savage, the rich more important than the poor, and moderns more clever than the prehistoric. And today—because of the obscure machinations of progress—is much better than yesterday. We may believe […]
Down the Arctic Sea Ice Escalator
September 8, 2012
The Arctic sea ice minimum, the point of every year where Arctic sea ice reachest its greatest melt–before the sea begins freezing up again in the six month Arctic night–has been getting lower every decade. In 2007, special conditions conspired to bring about a record melt, and that record has stood until this year, where […]
Carbon Is a Loan Shark
September 7, 2012
Anybody who has followed the (fictional) career of Tony Soprano knows that it doesn’t pay to get involved with a loan shark. The vig, the juice, the shy, the points—the interest the loan shark charges on the loan (characteristically 2% a week if those who speak wiseguy on the internet tell true)—is usually too ferocious […]
Grandpa Theo
With Malaika
Klick This Pic
An Informal Chronology of the Aboriginal Land Question in BC
Father Theo's Blog 
September 29, 2012
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