Hey, World--I'm Back! After a 4-Year Neglect...Excuse Me, Hiatus...

(WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 2025): Good evening, Climate Strikers all! Where the hell have I been all this time? Well, alive; visiting Scandinavia (summer of 2022), and trying to figure out how to sell more teeshirts, and distribute original music. But for some reason, I drifted away from this blog; I don't know why. Sorry about that.

But I've decided to have another go at climate-change blogging, because the MAGA lunatics have retaken the asylum (I mean, the White House); and once again, we've been pulled out of the Paris Climate Accords and other international climate-mitigating efforts. And the new-and-deteriorated President, whom I shall usually refer to as "Orange Thing", is even crazier this time around. He wants to annex Canada as our 51st state. He wants to purchase Greenland, whether they like it or not. He wants to take the Panama Canal back. And he still doesn't give two farts about climate change. But we do. Off-schedule plankton and algae blooms don't lie, after all.

As I started out writing this blog, I want to focus on what people and countries are doing in the way of mitigating climate change, to the best of our ability. There are enough sites devoted to doomsday predictions and hand-wringing. Of course, there is no getting around taking the climate crisis seriously; but I don't want to take the stance of "there's nothing we can do, folks; we're screwed. We shouldn't have made so many freaking vehicles." We all know we can do better. We can create new technology and methods of living, as well as adapting existing tech. Adaptation is part of being human, after all; it's how we've survived into the present age.

I've been paying a lot of attention to the current situations in Ukraine, and Israel/Palestine, both of which are in peril due to the makeup of the current U.S. government. I haven't left the country yet, but neither have I taken that option off the table. But now, I also want to keep track of climate and science news, including news of conditions in the world's oceans, for obvious reasons. The various sections and news widgets I've inserted in this site will hopefully help me do this.