PostedJun 8, 2020 | climate change, Covid-19, international news, lifestyle, news, opinion, sustainability
By Ross Thrasher We tend to think of the coronavirus curve as a single symmetrical mountain shape. However COVID-19 can often trace other paths. Bactrian camels are rare in Iran, but that country is revealing a double-hump pattern in its coronavirus infections. ...
PostedApr 27, 2020 | Covid-19, international news, lifestyle, opinion, sustainability
by Ross Thrasher No numbers this time, just some rambling thoughts about how some good could emerge from the pandemic that is strangling our world. In spite of denialism and quackery from the White House and elsewhere, most people seem to be gaining respect for...
PostedApr 16, 2020 | Covid-19, international news, lifestyle, opinion, policy
Rosco Reports III by Ross Thrasher On April 15 the global tally of coronavirus cases passed the two-million mark, growing by 80,000 daily. 25% of these have recovered and 6.5% have died. In the media there has been much discussion of “the curve”, the...
PostedJan 9, 2020 | climate change, news, opinion, policy
This is my charge to everyone: We have to be better. We have to love more and hate less, listen more and talk less. It is our responsibility to make this world a better place. Megan Rapinoe Co-captain World Cup winning US Women’s Soccer Team A Mountain to Climb We...
PostedSep 9, 2019 | climate change, community, international news, opinion, sustainability
Autumn is in the air and the zeitgeist is unsettled. Greta has arrived in New York to talk to the United Nations. The Amazon rainforest is on fire. The Hong Kong young people take to the streets knowing they will face tear gas, rubber bullets and blue paint. They got...
PostedJun 10, 2019 | climate change, news, opinion
Madhur Anand, University of Guelph In a 2015 essay, poet and novelist Margaret Atwood wrote, “It’s not climate change, it’s everything change.” Atwood asked us back then to reconsider the term “climate change” because there is not a system — human or non-human — that...
