Will Oceans Continue To Absorb CO2 As They Do Now?
Each year around 40 billion tons of CO2 is
released into the air, but 20 billion tons is recaptured through natural
processes -- sometimes we just...
Horse Races
Tomorrow is Derby day.
Lexington, Kentucky presents its annual festival of the best
thoroughbreds. Out of them will emerge a
winner, without one hopes the not infrequent...
The Existential Crisis of Global Warming and Carbon Capture
If we care about our earth (and the
readers here are most likely to) the story is quite simple: We emit 40
billion tons of carbon...
Horror in Sri Lanka and Love Fest in Vladivostok
The horrendous Easter bombings in Sri
Lanka make little sense; the question remains, why? Following 30 years of
civil war between the majority Buddhist Sinhalese (75%)...
Trump and his Superheroes
Chivalry and knights errant long past,
Donald Trump has brought forth the dawn of a new age: the
grab-em-by-the-p****y and bully 'em era. Juxtaposing Congresswoman
Ilhan Omar...
Do The Harmless Pangolins Have To Become Extinct?
The pangolin is a timid little creature going
about its nocturnal ways, slurping up ants and termites with a tongue longer
than its body. It has...
Election News this Week as Assange Goes to Jail
The depressing Israeli election is over -- a choice
between the right and the hard right. No
room for Israeli Arabs or Palestinians who were encouraged...
Up The Wall
If a
tragedy is watching disaster unfold and being powerless to stop it, then such
is Brexit -- a conundrum wrapped in an enigma as the...
Why Climate Change Is Not a Hoax
We humans are programmed to respond to dangers apparent and immediate,
but the long term, the incipient, and to our eyes invisible elude us.
Climate change...
Honor Among Thieves?
When Michael Cohen, fixer for Donald
Trump, payoff-artist and jailbird-to-be,
who starts 3-year prison sentence on May 6, branded his former boss a liar and
cheat who...