Rhiwena's climatechange Profile

This is sheep country, no ewe turns.
Ive just had a college week. It was awesome. Ive come back feeling all inspired and hopeful.
We had one lecture on global warming, and what the climatic modeling predicts...not in itself all that hopeful to say the least. Its not just about reducing carbon... Read More

and I am not talking about my dogs penis.
A January daffodil.
You go away for a few years and you really notice climate change when you come back. Ive never seen daffs round here before March in the past. This is on a North facing slope, that doesnt get... Read More

It happens occasionally. Theres a book that interests me and gets hyped enough that I want to read it.
Alan Weisman's "The World Without Us" is the latest.
Ive often pondered What would the Earth be like if human beings vanished. I spent far too many hours of my childhood sitting... Read More

Well ok, limiting global warming and perhaps saving the Biosphere.
It’s prettier than a Prius, more endearing than an Antarctic ice shelf, and its survival is imperiled.
On February 2005 the Center for Biological Diversity (the organization that I worked for until recently) petitioned the United States Government to list the Alaskan... Read More

24 hour stopover for Elliotts grandmothers funeral. Sounds ridiculous spending 600 bucks for a damn funeral of someone I hardly knew, but Elliotts dad is adamant that I should go.
So I will fly 2714 miles which will emit .78 tonnes of carbon into the environment in my name. Not to... Read More

There actually appears to be media coverage of the biggest man made threat to life on this planet. Depressing though that is, it gives me hope.