The Blackboard:

I know very little about James Hansen’s tax plan. One of the reasons is that Hansen himself said very little about it during his recent well publicized speech commemorating his 1988 presentation to Congress. He blew his powder on more explosive sound bites, distracting everyone from actions he is proposing.

Still, Boris did [...]

Winter brings hunger:
The furry frisky squirrels
get me to feed them.

One day, this little squirrel discovered that peanuts rain down from my open window. She also noticed that the window is opened when my favorite squirrel, Rumpy, visits. So, now, whenever Rumpy is in the yard, she stops by too.
Here’s Rumpy. [...]

    
The first day of spring:
Opossum waddles slowly
across my backyard.
    
We get a lot of opossums around here. I don’t see them much during the winter. Heck, they are nocturnal, so I don’t often see them out in the bright sun. But, cutey was out there wandering around 10 am. I wish he’d turned [...]

Last November, when visitors at
Unthreaded at Climate Audit were claiming that it was not unusually warm, on Nov. 16, I responded:
Bernie: It is darn warm in Chicago. I’ve got pepper plants that aren’t dead! My tomato plants are alive — but the tomatoes themselves are just green and lingering. It’s an eyesore, but I am [...]