No loss should be more regrettable to us than losing our time, for it is irretrievable.
- Zeno of Citium

Today marks 17 years since I established this website. It's not finished, as the job of reversing the drivers of climate change is clearly not finished. This really is a fight for the lives of our descendants - our children and their children. Frankly, if we don't reverse course as a species, it may not matter beyond the next 2 generations to come. As I wrote 20 years ago:
It's your planet. If you won't look after it, who will?"

The facelift on this page is meant primarily to recognize the main shifts I have seen over the past couple of decades. More people are recognizing the changes in the weather, and making the obvious link to climate change. Still, most are doing little about it, or even recognizing that the target for maximum benefit in the next decade is methane, much more so than carbon dioxide. And far too many are still in the thrall of the fossil foolers' mythinformation campaigns.

The facelift also recognizes that most of my efforts for this site in the past decade now reside in the 'blog', the news items I have collected here - with commentary - and that there are many other sources for the basic information about what we can do as individuals, communitities, nations and a species to reduce the main drivers of climate change: methane gas emissions; carbon dioxide emissions; making the planet's surface darker (aka lower albedo or reflectivity of light) and producing more waste heat on the planet's surface. As we continue to fail on mitigation collectively - which would have been cheap, but reduced fossil fuel profits - we are now shifting more to adaptation locally, and by necessity, not choice.

Assuming our progeny survive, they will likely look back at the past 20 years as the biggest missed opportunity in human history.

I will continue to provide a mix of ideas people can use, reports of scientific evidence (generally how dire things are now), and stories of successes that others may wish to emulate, or improve upon. The objective is to provide a balanced sense of progress in fhe face of the doom and gloom, and positive actions you can take to make a beneficial difference. Even the longest journey begins with a single step. However small, do something. Then do another something. Repeat endlessly. Set an example, be informed enough to be informative for others.

Accept the need to do better.
"In many ways, in every way that mattered, feelings were more powerful than thoughts. They were the engine of perception, which drove thought, which became words and prompted action." - Louise Penny in The Grey Wolf

As we being 2026, I wish you all wisdom, courage and strength in your convictions. You likely know what needs to be done. If not, this site will continue to try to sort truth from propaganda and educate.

If you choose to do so, and enough others do as well, we can still turn this around, but time is running short.

It truly is your choice: survival of our species or not.

"Be joyful though you have considered all the facts." - Wendell Berry

It is my current stance that we need - as a species - to prioritize some specific items to give our kids and their kids a reasonable chance. (It isn't going to be easy for them; we have baked in the next 50 years of climate chaos in already due to latency effects and feedback loops. That's not a joke or alarmism; it's science, data and evidence.)

1) When you find you have found you have dug yourself into a hole, the first step is to STOP DIGGING. In the case of coal, that's literal. It also applies to drilling (a kind of digging) for oil and fossil methane ('natural' gas).
To be clear, that means stop burning stuff to make more greenhouse gases and waste heat, and as a bonus, get cleaner, healthier air, water and soil.

2) Reduce fugitive emissions, especially of methane, from all controllable sources, e.g., venting from oil exploitation and production sites; industrial fertilizer production; landfill sites where organic material decomposes into methane in an oxygen-starved pit; and leaks in the distribution network.

3) Start capturing and destroying 'natural' methane production from the anaerobic decomposition of excess vegetation (e.g., algal blooms, sargassum weed inundations) by collecting and processing that material for beneficial use (e.g., composting to make soil amendment material rich in nitrogen and phosphorus or biodigesting to make renewable biogas to displace fossil methane).

4) Work to increase the reflectivity (albedo) of the planet's surface so that less of the sun's light spectrum is converted to infra-red (heat) to reduce planetary heating. Things like lighter coloured roofing materials and increasing the time that surface snow and ice last each year.

Recognize there are things we can all do as individuals and collectively to reverse course, but first we have to choose to take action, and then choose the actions we take.

Wishing you wisdom, courage and strength, and hoping you find something here to be helpful.>/P>

Disclosure

I'm really not trying to sell you anything here. This site is not sponsored. It doesn't serve up advertisements. It doesn't collect your data or use tracking cookies to sell data to others. I pay for the hosting and do the research because my family, friends and community matter to me. I hope others will find this site, find it credible and useful and choose to take action(s), however small, to make a more survivable planet for those who come after us.

Your call. (The following material is a few years old now, but I think still warrants your attention. Think of it as base or prerequisite material.)

Here's the deal.

• Catastrophic climate change is real and happening now. It's killing people and creating climate refugees. It's also killing thousands of other species. Watch the (real) news and connect the dots.
• Human activity is the fundamental cause; especially the massive and growing use of fossil fuels per person, multiplied by increasing population.
• Whereas temperature rise is correctly perceived as the dominant impact of the CC issue, there are multiple other inter-related factors on which human survival depend: availability of potable water, declining health of the oceans and arable land, and more.
• While climate change is inextricably linked to how we use material resources, its effects will incur unprecedented stresses on maintaining peace between peoples who will be increasingly deprived of the means of survival.
• You have been fed a lot of disinformation by the fossil fuel industry, who have known about this since the 1960s.
• Fixing climate change is cheaper than dealing with the consequences.
• The rate of change is increasing (that's the definiton of acceleration), there are catastrophic threshold (tipping) points, and there are 'positive feedback loops' (not positive in the sense of being beneficial to us and our descendants) which we (including the IPCC) have not yet really taken into account.
• Wide-scale geo-engineering without an off-switch is a really bad idea based on the human track record, often attended by unintended consequences, when we're dealing with complex systems we don't understand sufficiently well. (Consider the current state of 2-week weather forecasts; now contemplate 100-year predictions based on our current state of knowledge and understanding.)
• Climate modelling of far greater sophistication than used today is required to get a better sense of how various factors will interact and of their likely consequences to help evaluate adaptation plans, or estimate outcomes from various mitigation strategies. Until we have a handle on that, our best path forward is to reverse the increase in greenhouse gases to return planetary systems to a more stable state.
• The UN IPCC is hopelessly optimistic and are building models based on years-old data, not recent knowledge. They do not take into account tipping points and feedback loops. In short, we don't have 12 years as indicated in their last report. We have months to start making changes, and we have to get serious about meeting targets like the Paris Agreement, but before 2030. The IPCC is unavoidably constrained by political compromise.
• There are things we can do, today, which just might allow the survival of the human race.