• Personal Reflections - Politics/Culture

    Choosing Hope Amid the Heat of Global Warming

    It seems to me our wounded planet is a perfect and inevitable reflection of our own woundedness as human beings. As goes the inner, so goes the outer. We are flawed and confused, we want conflicting things. In the developed world, we want to drive our fossil-fueled cars to the protest against fossil fuels. Even the most conscientious of us, living by the most modest means, outdo all the kings and queens of history, consuming massive amounts of natural resources compared to our ancestors and the entire third world today. Yes, we are all part of the problem. All that…

  • Politics/Culture - Religion

    “The House Is on Fire”:
    Belief vs. Data in the
    Climate Change Debate

    A few months ago, blog reader, longtime friend and Ph.D. scientist/oceanographer Walt McKeown asked me why I hadn’t written anything on climate change, given the clear threat it presents to everything we value in life and, indeed, to life itself on many parts of our globe. I answered that I didn’t feel I had much to add to a topic that has been exhaustively covered by others who have serious credentials in the matter. So it is with some irony that I note recent comments by Senator Marco Rubio and others of similar bent who acknowledge they have no credentials…