It is time to refocus my energies on writing. The moose’s extensive daily information trawling, and resultant blogging, will cease for a time, or at the least pull back drastically for a while. If the world ends, I suspect the rioting mob in the street shall inform me, though it is a very peaceful hillside [...]

Outside the rain is close to horizontal. Inside my breath is steam clouds. Yay for alpaca wool cloaks.

It seems unthinkable, but for the first time in human history, ice is on course to disappear entirely from the North Pole this year. The disappearance of the Arctic sea ice, making it possible to reach the Pole sailing in a boat through open water, would be one of the most dramatic – and worrying – [...]

Someone asked me the other night how long I thought it would be until Things Fell Apart. I replied something like “It is really hard to judge since the situation and system is one of massive interdependence and complexity. Who knows what will turn out to be the crucial link to fail that causes something [...]

The moose has a red wine hangover after a delightfully unexpected reconnection with my favourite Squirrel. Yay for awesome people. Meanwhile, the world does not stop for the hungover. Leading climate scientist makes call to put heads of oil companies on trial for crimes against humanity: James Hansen, one of the world’s leading climate scientists, will today call [...]