I've been working on my new book for so long that I haven't gotten back to my blog roots. But don't worry, I remember what's important to me. The fight is still on for our beautiful world. 
http://peoplesclimate.org/march 
Here's the link to one of the most important functions happening in our state at the moment. Join the 350.org organizers and the everyday people as they band together in an effort to save our environment.
There can be no argument from anyone, any political side or point of view, no argument from any living creature that our air, water and the earth that we stand on aren't the most important things for the future of our children. 
All the good jobs in the world and the money that they create won't buy a breath of fresh air or a drink of clean water when it's all gone.
Word.

I got sick of looking at the garbage across the street; you know, the stuff from everybody's recycle bin. It just finds its way into the trees and bushes on the road edge. I've been driving by it for weeks now since the snow melted. 
Is it worse that I waited so long to go pick it up, or that it was there in the first place?

I had some time at the end of the day so I wandered down the parkway to Point Breeze. The lake was calm and inviting for early April. I took the time to walk out to the end of the pier and enjoy the view. 
The first thing I noticed was a beautiful Pepsi bottle floating in the flotsam. Then all the plastic swirling deliciously in the backwater. After that, I kicked a fully rigged rubber worm with my foot. It slid quietly into the rocks out of sight before I could retrieve it. -dammit- The old styrofoam worm boxes were a joy to behold, resting among the rocks. At least there was an old shoe and what looked like a shirt down there. Ah, fashion! 
When I reached the end, I got a great look at a big ball of used fishing line lying on the path. I know that art is there to behold, and we should keep our hands off, but I just had to put it in the pocket of my hoody and take it.
I hope the museum guard didn't bust me. 
Epilogue: There's nothing I like better than picking up some other "sportsman's" bullshit.

I'm vehemently in opposition to the natural gas drilling method known as hydrofracking, hydraulic fracturing, high volume hydraulic fracking, fracing, or most commonly referred to as fracking. 
I use very little natural gas in my home, but I do use it. As much as we need to change our habits and our consumption of burned fuels (coal, oil, gasoline, natural gas, etc) we are still tied to them... for the very short term. It's not out of our power to make these changes.
As far as fracking goes: until they can retrieve natural gas and oil (yes, oil) from the ground without polluting it AND the air, it should be banned as a practice in the world. 
I received a copy of "The Flowback" from a friend long ago, and I commonly refer to the paragraph written at the bottom of the front page:
"THREE KINDS OF PEOPLE FAVOR HYDROFRACKING:
Those whose greed blinds them; those who have swallowed the Kool-Aid and believe the industry's lies; and those who are not as yet informed. At the moment, most belong in the third category. But We The People, are waking up. Look around and see what we are accomplishing in this world. Critical mass will soon be reached. There is not enough wealth in the whole universe to withstand critical mass and truth, an idea whose time has come.
In the case of hydrofracking, truer words have never been spoken."

With spring almost here, the dregs of winter begin to show. It's hard to see the litter of humanity; the painful reality of the fact that we throw away more than we use. As the woods begin to open up with the melt of the snow pack, it's obvious that a clean-up is paramount.
I know this: if we could trade the desire we have for sex with the desire to clean up our environment, our world would be spotless.

Probability: “A mathematical statement about how likely it is that harm will be suffered from a hazard.”* 
In this case, the hazard is global warming.

      

On a scale of 0-100, we assess that it is 100% that climate change has already happened, is happening now, and that it will continue long into our own and our children’s future.

Justification:

Have you ever seen a glacier melt? Felt the ocean warm up on acquired solar rays because there is no ice left to reflect it? Ever stepped in a thermokarst? Watched a cow burp methane? How about this: have you ever seen a carbon dioxide molecule absorb the suns energy and hold on to it? What’s that stuff we breathe in every second? You can’t see it, but it’s there. Good thing, too.

We can form a hypothesis or induction about what the answer might be. For instance:

“After the onset of the industrial revolution (In 1750, or so) and particularly in the last fifty years, the amount of CO2 in the earth’s atmosphere shot up from 280ppm to 384ppm, where it has probably never been for twenty million years…”

“And we know that this increase in CO2 is going to give us a different climate than the one we have now, because in 670,000 straight years, whenever CO2 has gone up, temperatures have gone up, and whenever CO2 in the atmosphere has gone down, temperatures have gone down. So to say that the additional CO2 added by humans is not a problem is to bet against 670,000 straight years of data, and to hope that we are going to get lucky this time.”**   

April 19, 2013 NY Outdoor News, page 23: “off the charts” record heat last year, statistics show

“Washington (AP) America set an off-the-charts heat record in 2012. “A brutal combination of a widespread drought and mostly absent winter pushed the average annual U.S. temperature last year up to 55.32 degrees Fahrenheit, the government announced last month. That’s a full degree warmer than the old record set in 1998. Breaking temperature records by an entire degree is unprecedented, scientists say. Normally, records are broken by a tenth of a degree or so.”

“These records do not occur like this in an unchanging climate,” said Kevin Trenberth, head of climate analysis at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo. “And they are costing many billions of dollars.”

*Miller, Ch 11; Environmental hazards and human health 

Page 237

**Nate Lewis, Caltech energy chemist as quoted in T.L. Friedman’s “Hot, Flat, and Crowded”

Page 162-163

        

       “If you really think that the environment is less important than the economy, try holding your breath while you count your money.”

Dr. Guy McPherson