CA OIL PRODUCTION - A bill that has quietly slipped through the legislature purports to serve a sensible goal — increase transparency on emissions data for the transportation of oil imported to California.

CLIMATE WATCH - The Independent reported this week on a massive ice melt in Greenland, with on the order of 6 billion tons of ice lost in three days.

ENVIRONMENT - Devil Incarnate.  Certain things we can stipulate:

CLIMATE WATCH - Climate scientists have long warned of the impending crises as human pollutants create an ever-warming planet.

ECOSYSTEM - “With 35% loss globally since 1970, wetlands are our most threatened ecosystem, disappearing three times faster than forests.

FOSSIL FUEL ADDICTION - Civilization has benefited from more than 6,000 products made from the oil derivatives manufactured out of raw crude oil at refineries.

THE ENVIRONMENT - Do you want to develop the superpower of seeing decades, even centuries, into the future?

CLIMATE WATCH - Deadly fires, persistent drought, extreme floods and lost homes are part of the California Legislature’s stark forecast for the effects of climate change.

CLIMATE WATCH - The canary in the coal mine is dead. He died of heat prostration.

CLIMATE WATCH - It’s entirely possible that doomsayers of the world, though widely ridiculed, could be on target about the prospects for global societal collapse.

CLIMATE WATCH - California’s once-abundant salmon runs are on the verge of collapse.

EPA WATCH - This essay was written before I got word that:(a) hundreds of women and others were surrounded by Capital Police and facing arrest in militant protests on behalf of recently stripped abortion rights outside the illegitimate Christian Fascist United States Supreme Court on the morning of Thursday, June 30, 2022;