Category Archives: climate change

Not good animal news: climate change

Posted on July 10, 2020 by Naomi

Today in West Side Rag, a follow up from a scientist on an unhappy recent observation:  hundreds of dead fish in the Hudson River.

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A very large Straw Man hanging over Mount Rushmore

Posted on July 1, 2020 by Naomi

Today, the Times published a concerning factual article about the history of Mount Rushmore and its four faces. It is pertinent background, since Trump has decided to hold some sort of July 4 celebration there. Given that the places Trump … Continue reading →

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It isn’t nice to defy Mother Nature

Posted on January 4, 2020 by Naomi

And she is so pissed: “30-Foot Drift of Tumbleweed Buries Motorists on the Highway”, a/k/a “Tumblegeddon” The plant is thought to have arrived in the United States when American farmers, looking for inexpensive flax seed in the 1870s, bought contaminated … Continue reading →

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