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California Drought and Strengthening El Nino Accelerate Statewide Water Transition
California Drought and Strengthening El Nino Accelerate Statewide Water Transition New infrastructure, laws, and practices help the state respond to hydrologic extremes, but more are needed. Photo © J. Carl Ganter / Circle of Blue California’s canal system moves water hundreds of miles from the Sierra Nevada foothills to Los Angeles and San Diego. Adapting […]
Humans Kill 14 Times More Adult Fish Than Wild Predators
Humans Kill 14 Times More Adult Fish Than Wild Predators Enter the super predator. Across the world, humans have overwhelmed wild populations and brought chaos to natural ecosystems. We may suspect this intuitively, but now researchers have some hard numbers to show just how efficient humans are as predators. The result of a decade of […]
The Case of Glyphosate: Product Promoters Masquerading as Regulators?
The Case of Glyphosate: Product Promoters Masquerading as Regulators? On 20 March, the World Health Organisation International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) said that glyphosate was probably carcinogenic to humans. This is just one step below the risk designation of ‘known carcinogen’. The European Unioin is currently in the process of assessing the IARC’s research and will re-evaluate […]
Why Has The Government Stopped Reporting Lake Mead Water Levels?
Why Has The Government Stopped Reporting Lake Mead Water Levels? For months we have been warning that “Vegas is screwed” as water levels continue to plunge in its most crucial reservoirs. Non-government experts are waving red flags that something must be done (and even NASA scientists fear the worst) while the government remains quiet. And then just 3 months […]
NOAA: July Was Hottest Month Ever Worldwide
NOAA: July Was Hottest Month Ever Worldwide July was a scorcher, globally speaking. Last month was the warmest on record worldwide with many countries and the world’s oceans experiencing intense heat waves, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said today in a report. The report found that “the July average temperature across global land and ocean […]
California Oilfield Operators Refuse To Report Water Usage, In Violation Of The Law
California Oilfield Operators Refuse To Report Water Usage, In Violation Of The Law How much water does California’s oil and gas industry actually use? We still don’t know, despite a 2014 law signed by Governor Jerry Brown that went into effect this year requiring companies to report on all water produced, used and disposed of […]
Nestle Pays Only $524 to Extract 27,000,000 Gallons of California Drinking Water
Nestle Pays Only $524 to Extract 27,000,000 Gallons of California Drinking Water Los Angeles, CA — Nestle has found itself more and more frequently in the glare of the California drought-shame spotlight than it would arguably care to be — though not frequently enough, apparently, for the megacorporation to have spontaneously sprouted a conscience. Drought-shaming worked sufficiently enough for […]
The Teflon Toxin: How Dupont Slipped Past the EPA
The Teflon Toxin: How Dupont Slipped Past the EPA IKE ROMINE GREW UP in Blennerhasset, West Virginia, not far from DuPont’s Parkersburg plant. Throughout his childhood and young adulthood, Romine was probably exposed through his drinking water to C8, a slippery, soap-like chemical used to make Teflon pans and Stainmaster carpet and hundreds of other products. […]
The Latest Science on Global Warming
The Latest Science on Global Warming Because of the prejudiced coverage of the global warming issue that’s common in much of the press, I have decided to present highlights from one of the most comprehensive articles that’s now being considered by one of the world’s top scientific journals on the topic: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. This […]
Parts of California Have Sunk Over a Foot in Eight Months Due to Drought
Parts of California Have Sunk Over a Foot in Eight Months Due to Drought California Dreamin’ this is not. Sounds pretty freakin’ terrifying actually. From Bloomberg: Land in California’s central valley agricultural region sank more than a foot in just eight months in some places as residents and farmers pump more and more groundwater amid a […]
Relying on the Government Will Make Climate Change Worse
Relying on the Government Will Make Climate Change Worse Twenty-five years ago, existentialism was a hot piece of intellectual property. A literate public was buying up such books as William Barrett’s Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy and Viktor Frankl’s From Death Camp to Existentialism (later republished under the title Man’s Search for Meaning). American psychologists were being introduced […]
Another Industry Reported Quake in BC’s Fracking Grounds
Another Industry Reported Quake in BC’s Fracking Grounds Regulator says tremor likely industry-caused, but company says it’s too soon to say. Progress Energy, an arm of the Malaysian oil company Petronas, temporarily shut down operations at a wellsite after a 4.5 magnitude earthquake hit an area 114 kilometres northwest of Fort St. John on Aug. […]
July Was Warmest Month On Record NOAA Reports, Lists All “Signifiicant Climate Anomalies And Events”
July Was Warmest Month On Record NOAA Reports, Lists All “Signifiicant Climate Anomalies And Events” While some, perhaps not California farmers, will disagree with NOAA’s assessment of the world’s atmospheric conditions, earlier today the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration declared that July was the warmest month ever recorded for the globe and was also the record warmest […]
The Last Refuge of the Incompetent
The Last Refuge of the Incompetent There are certain advantages to writing out the ideas central to this blog in weekly bursts. Back in the days before the internet, when a galaxy of weekly magazines provided the same free mix of ideas and opinions that fills the blogosphere today, plenty of writers kept themselves occupied […]
