Confessions of a Climate Change Comedy Screenwriter
It’s on— millions of leafy-lane owning California homeowners are looking around their neighborhoods this morning and many do not like what they see. I am a climate-change-denying- it can’t happen here- Northern California homeowner. I was until Wednesday. The massive wildfires in Los Angeles can’t happen up here. We still get rain, our Diablo’s ( […]
Read More California Climate MigrationWildfire has struck Los Angeles again. Squeezed between Malibu to the north and Santa Monica to the south is the Pacific Palisades. Years ago, I spent time in nearby Brentwood. My hosts had searched for some years and when this hillside home came on the market, they packed up their house in Belair for proximity […]
Read More Pacific Palisades ConflagrationHurricanes are more powerful; droughts linger longer and wildfires rage uncontrollably across the landscape. I have a second climate change comedy screenplay under construction. The best way to think about the climate is to laugh about our predicament and then because we can see for ourselves the impact our runaway climate is having on our […]
Read More Comedy as CureWe won’t go back— got that right. We won’t go back. That’s one while the other is— mind your own damn business— Had you been away say in an isolation chamber, perhaps a news fast, you were at a mountain retreat working on your sitting practice with a Thai forest monk. You will be forgiven […]
Read More August agendaCalifornia’s population is big and some of our most iconic tourist destinations are too small.
Read More Big Sur by Air and SeaI asked the store clerk how he survived the storm. “Power was out for three days. Three trees fell and blocked our access to the party. Drove up to Livermore from San Luis Obispo. We should have stayed home.” Sunday’s hard hitting bomb cyclone was reprising its 2023 role when last year a similarly intense […]
Read More Subtropical Cyclones for You and Me—for every 10 new battery electric vehicles in each square mile there is a 3-5% decrease in asthma attacks—
Read More Plans for Hope EternalWildfire’s are as predictable now as atmospheric river’s and who ever heard of those atmospheric demons until now—
Read More Atmospheric River BluesI’ve crunched the numbers, counted bodies, estimated river flow percentages and had a fair number of Prickly pear cactus margaritas preparing highly accurate projections —
Read More Caesars Palace Water FolliesThe Salt Lake City Tribune posted a water story (see it here) that straightened my back and got my attention. The story is well researched, we learn there are 10,000 family hay-growing operations in Utah, that the crop market value is $500 million, and one-third of the crop is sent overseas. Profits in Utah’s alfalfa […]
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