So California is pretty much turning into Arrakis. They already have all the drugs, weird religions and obsessions with rejuvenation (At least in Hollywood.), now they're gonna need to build huge water caches.

Nice to see the severity rating drop, but keep in mind that lots of plants died before this rain came (and many died because of its severity). The stats are improving, but the ecology itself needs a bit of stability to call it a recovery.

No, it really doesn't.

It is only response to Tiger Style.

There is, to my knowledge, exactly one extrabiblical artifact— the Tel Dan stele— that mentions the 'House of David' as being a title in use for Judean kings. I suspect that a David, or perhaps a composite figure of several warlords posthumously lumped together into the memory of a man called David, did exist...…

How about, "American under-classes revolt to remove the kleptocratic regime in power and install a representative democracy"?

Damn it, squirrels, you're giving all the idiots something to point at to feed their delusions of anthropogenic climate change being a hoax.

Don't report on this! The politicians will cling to it and use it as yet another excuse to not put limits on industry!

Everything can contribute to climate change and the release of greenhouse gases. The problem is, we're contributing as humans far more than we should. Our footprint, as it were, is too big. And the problem is, people equate footprint with real-estate... and that's wealth. So when you tell someone "Reduce your…

What next ISU?

Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

1984

Well, you needn't convince me we are completely fubaring ourselves here. I've long been convinced.

I'm reading this book right now, and it is scary as hell.

Pretty much the reaction of any field researcher when something unexpected happens. Like when a flying squirrel lands DIRECTLY NEXT to you on the mist net pole you're trying to set up. Or when you walk past a small clump of trees and brush and a huge bobcat explodes from it and runs past you. Biology: hours and…

It's bad, but not that bad. It's not like he got a sharpei skin and stuffed it to bursting.

In Iceland they make a fermented jerky called hákarl out of Greenland shark meat. Apparently it tastes and smells horrible.

there is nothing better than that lion

It's still better than this lion!