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Interesting weeks?

“May you live in interesting times!”

This is said to be a Chinese curse. Continue reading “Interesting weeks?”

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Author GuyPosted on 2025-01-08Categories astronomy, climate, environment, politics, votingTags China, comjunctions, Fred Schaaf, planets8 Comments on Interesting weeks?

Elusive elongation

Mercury will on July 22 achieve Continue reading “Elusive elongation”

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Author GuyPosted on 2024-07-20Categories astronomy, climate, environmentTags elongation, global heating, interrnet outage, Mercury, orbits, planets, timekeeping systems3 Comments on Elusive elongation

Happy triple birthday

As the Sun sinks underground, the Moon is born. It first emerges on July 6, Continue reading “Happy triple birthday”

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Put heat on the heaters

Here’s a scene from the torrid surface of Venus. Continue reading “Put heat on the heaters”

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Author GuyPosted on 2023-07-202023-07-20Categories climate, environmentTags climate breakdown, fossil fuel, global heating8 Comments on Put heat on the heaters

Markers on Planet Earth

We are in a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene. Continue reading “Markers on Planet Earth”

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Author GuyPosted on 2023-01-102023-01-10Categories climate, environment, geologyTags Anthrpocene epoch, biodiversity, climate change, geology, global heating, globel extinction9 Comments on Markers on Planet Earth

Happy Thanksgiving!

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Author GuyPosted on 2022-11-242022-11-24Categories astronomy, climate, environment, human rights and animal rightsTags Iran, Moon, zodiac11 Comments on Happy Thanksgiving!

Next day’s view from Sharm el-Sheikh

Let’s give the Cop27 delegates another chance to look Continue reading “Next day’s view from Sharm el-Sheikh”

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Author GuyPosted on 2022-11-102022-11-11Categories astronomy, climate, environment, human rights and animal rightsTags climate, Cop27, Egypt, global heating, Sharm el-Sheikh, Tuvalu3 Comments on Next day’s view from Sharm el-Sheikh

Sharm and Fath

Here is the evening sky for the 45,000 Cop27 delegates Continue reading “Sharm and Fath”

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Author GuyPosted on 2022-11-092022-11-09Categories astronomy, climate, environment, human rights and animal rightsTags Alaa Abd el-Fattah, climate, Cop27, Egypt, global heating, Sharm el-Sheikh2 Comments on Sharm and Fath

29th in importance

29th article in today’s paper: civilization will end in a year or two. Continue reading “29th in importance”

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Author GuyPosted on 2022-10-282022-10-29Categories climate, environmentTags c;omate crisis, global heating, greenhouse gas emissions, Just Stop Oil, oil17 Comments on 29th in importance

History of the Good Future

(Provoked by the drip-drip-drip of bad news in the present.)

Continue reading “History of the Good Future”

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Author GuyPosted on 2022-06-182022-06-18Categories best?, climate, environment, human rights and animal rights, politics, votingTags asylum seekers, climate, polotocs, social philosophy, Ukraine14 Comments on History of the Good Future

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