What I have learned most from the success of my blog, from the rapid growth in subscribers and visitors and comments, along with the increasing number of websites that link to or reprint my posts, is that there is in fact a great hunger out there for the bluntest possible talk. It is a hunger to learn the truth about the dire nature of our energy and climate situation, about the grave threat to our children and future generations, about the vast but still achievable scale of the solutions, about the forces in politics and media that impede action—a hunger to face unpleasant facts head on.
This blog is among the most important ones out there for providing links to the latest in climate science, and for taking the climate change denialists head-on in their disinformation efforts. It's one of the first blogs I read each day. I'll start passing more of his posts along to you. He doesn't deal with ecology or natural history per se (he's a physicist), but sometimes his commenters have nuggets of information. For example, in the comments of this post, 'Colorado Bob' said:
To the end of seeding tips that others miss, I suggest you add a category of “species response”. Into that, place reports of just what plants and animals are doing to respond , things like this :
Coffee threatened by beetles in a warming world
A tiny insect that thrives in warmer temperatures — the coffee berry borer — has been spreading steadily, devastating coffee plants in Africa, Latin America, and around the world
http://www.guardian.co.uk/ environment/ 2010/ aug/ 27/ coffee-threatened-beetles-warming
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It has been my experience that the deniers , can’t spin Humbolt Squid showing up in Sitka, Alaska, or pine beetles eating the Canadian lumber supply.
and this further down the thread:
An 11 year set of maps of the beetle kill march across in British Columbia from the Provincial Forest Service -
http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hre/bcmpb/cumulative/1999.htm
The Aqua satellite pass over British Columbia 8-16-2010
http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/ gallery/ ?2010228-0816/ BritishColumbia.A2010228.2120.1km.jpg
It's a great web site. Important.
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