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Announcing My New Novel: The Long Fire Season

I am pleased to announce the release of my new novel, The Long Fire Season. For years, I have written about the technical realities of biosphere collapse and the necessity of adaptation. Now, I am exploring those themes through the most powerful lens available to us: the human heart.

Love in the Time of Natures Decline

The Long Fire Season is a multi-generational saga that asks a fundamental question: When the maps no longer match the territory, how do we find our way home

The story begins in a Bureau of Land Management dispatch center in Reno, Nevada. It introduces Mia Allen, a land-use planner tracking the decline of the biosphere, and Sam Powell, a fire dispatcher coordinating the response to a burning world. Their romance ignites not through instant infatuation, but through shared competence in the face of disaster.

More Than a Romance

This book is a fictional exploration of the concepts I laid out in Biosphere Collapse and The Manifesto of the Initiation. It visualizes the transition from our current industrial adolescence toward a mature, resilient future.

Spanning six decades, the narrative follows Mia and Sam as they navigate:

• The Great Simplification: As complex global systems fracture, the couple must learn to rely on local resilience and community.
• From Roar to Quiet: The story chronicles the shift from the industrial noise of the 21st century to the Quiet Earth of 2090.
• Becoming Seed Carriers: Ultimately, Mia and Sam transform from reactive responders into Seed Carrierselders who preserve knowledge and history for a future they will not see.

Why This Story Matters Now

We are living through an initiation. The floods, fires, and heat domes we face are not random they are the ordeals required to shatter our illusions of control. I wrote this book to show that while we may not be able to save the world as it was, we can save the love that allows us to survive what comes next.

Ready to Enter the Long Fire Season

Click below to read the full synopsis, meet the characters, and find links to other books in the Earth in Transition Series.

Things we will remember for:
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Canary Media reports on Cornell University's decarbonization efforts and Cornell on Fire's calls for more rapid and transparent action.

Climate activists contend that Cornell isnt reducing its emissions nearly fast enough to help limit global temperature rise. The story cites Cornell on Fire's concerns that Cornell is using Earth Source Heat as a delay tactic."

Story by Maria Gallucci.

Read the full story at:

offers sneak peek of hotter climate's toll

The ocean-crossing known as are nothing new: They deliver precipitation up & down the every winter & are the source of close to half of W. Washington & W. Oregons precipitation from Nov to April. But scientists expect them to grow more powerful, arrive more frequently, & last longer as Earths climate keeps warming.

Survivors Want to Rebuild All , but the Public Utilities Commission is Using Customer Funds to Incentivize Appliances

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de tout temps l'humain pensait se protger de la monte de la mer en construisant des digues
et de tout temps, ben c'est la mer qui gagne...

rien de nouveau
mais toujours aussi pathtique en fait

Everything is fine

() Die Gemeinde Niedere Brde beteiligt sich finanziell am und profitiert knftig direkt von den Einnahmen zweier .

Der Gemeinderat hat dem Vorhaben zugestimmt, der Brgermeister wird die Vertrge mit dem Betreiber unterzeichnen. Auch fr die Einwohner sind zustzliche Vorteile denkbar.

'Forever Chemicals' in Drinking Water Linked to Increased Risk of Birth Issues. Via sciencealert

Polar bears are "rewriting their DNA" to survive warming Arctic, study suggests.

reports: "The worlds polar bear population is projected to decline by two-thirds by 2050."

Nights are warming faster than days a major but overlooked climate risk.

One paragraph that seems to sum up the reality of trying to deal with the consequences of climate change

"Flows in the Colorado River have fallen, too. The 26-year average flow is 12.2 million acre-feet. Thats well below the 16.5 million acre-feet of water the states and Mexico have agreed to share on paper. One acre-foot roughly equals the annual water use of two to four households."

Climate change is stealing rain and snow from the Colorado River, new report says The Colorado Sun

Climate Change took our Dickensian Xmas London snow away.....

just watched The Daily Show (YouTube) and saw that the science documentary, Canary about glaciers & climate change, is free. so of course, i HAD TO SEE IT

except, it is NOT free. until i reset my VPN to USA, then it was free

Das des zwischen , , , und bringt neue Einnahmen fr die betroffenen Ortschaften.

Dank des neuen in Sachsen-Anhalt erhalten Gemeinden knftig einen festen Anteil an den Erlsen. Erste Anlagen knnten ab 2027 in Betrieb gehen.

New study reports the first record of winter breeding in Syngnathus abaster and S. typhle in a Mediterranean coastal lagoon. Findings suggest potential shifts in phenology linked to thermal anomalies: doi.org/10.1111/jfb.70195

be more like a starling, not less. care for your neighbor. it's the dynamics in between us that make a complex system work.

if what you take away from this is that we are doomed - that is really sad, but i can't help you.

First climate migrants arrive in Australia from sinking Tuvalu in South Pacific

these all want to fight . i know bc i once thought exactly like that. the only way they see to do that is by letting it break itself down.

but that is not what do.

that is what cancer cells do. and when you look a life as such as a cancer dynamic i can understand how you are a .

so these people have not "gone insane" over things. their insanity is grounded in a particular worldview.

World Meteorological Organization: New WMO Database on National Laws and Decrees Regulating Meteorology & Hydrology. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is pleased to announce the launch of a new database that compiles national laws and decrees governing meteorology and hydrology across all WMO Members. This resource provides a clear, accessible overview of the legal frameworks that

i too often think about things in a way like: what was the point it all went astray

you will never find an answer to that question because there is not a single thing that happens today for a sole root cause, or even a comprehensible collection of causes.

besides: humans dug up at some point.

i can see how people think it is pre-determined.

but that is like thinking every single mayor industrial or computational accident in the last 100 years was predetermined.

Climate models & weather models all deal with chance and probability. Most of us (including me) do not understand probability all that well. Can we use checking the , personally, to better understand

() In werden drei alte zurckgebaut und durch grere, leistungsstrkere Modelle ersetzt.

Die Gemeinde untersttzt das Vorhaben und setzt damit ein Zeichen fr den weiteren Ausbau erneuerbarer Energien in der Verbandsgemeinde Kusel-Altenglan. Die neuen Anlagen sollen mehr liefern und die Effizienz des Standorts deutlich erhhen.

An 8-year study of plants and pollinators in a Mediterranean community in southern Spain shows they're all flowering and active earlier as climate warms, but also a little less likely to overlap with interacting species

Another recent piece by Nuccitelli in Yale Climate Connections: Five ways Joe Rogan misleads listeners about climate change -- Rogan exposes millions to climate denial. Lets break down his tactics.

The rest of the world is lapping the U.S. in the EV race. EVs made up about 25% of global car sales in 2025. In the U.S., they only made up 10%.

Good article by Dana Nuccitelli Yale Climate Connections EVs

And yes, "Although alternative transportation methods like walking, biking, and public transport are the lowest-emissions options, replacing fossil-fueled cars with EVs also cuts pollution."

Africa: Droughts, Floods Wipe Out 10m Livestock in East Africa: Daily News Nairobi -- EAST Africa faces the worsening climate extremes, where recent droughts and floods are said to have wiped out about 10 million livestock worth 2bn US Dollars, crippling livelihoods from 2020 to 2022.

Climate models & weather models all deal with chance and probability. Most of us (including me) do not understand probability all that well. Can we use checking the , personally, to better understand

mgifford.github.io/risky-weather/

'Hidden' contrails in cirrus clouds contribute to climate warming, research finds

Derbyshire campaigners constructed a solar farm model outside Derbyshire County County Councils County Hall after the authority has expressed its opposition to large-scale solar panel farms and battery energy storage systems on greenfield sites

addio: i primi profughi climatici accolti dall'

La met dell'energia elettrica prodotta in generata da fonti rinnovabili - HDblog.it

New report names native Scottish species under threat from disease and warming climate

Important and well-loved tree species and Britains only remaining native cat are under critical threat without their conservation being prioritised according to a genetic scorecard developed by scientists across Scotland

Meteorologists say the extreme rains have been caused by an "atmospheric river" soaking the region along the coast of Oregon and Washington.

Former National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration chief scientist Ryan Maue, now a private meteorologist, said between 20 and 30 inches (51 to 76 centimeters) could fall in a three-week period, which is "quite extreme."

Subglacial sediments in Greenland may be up to 200m thick in places, according to analysis of seismic waves from distant large earthquakes arriving at seismometers deployed on Greenland ice sheet. If these sediments thaw as Greenland warms, has big impacts on future ice loss and sea level rise.

Because sediments have lower seismic velocities than hard bedrock, it produces measurable travel time delays in arriving teleseismic waves that can be used to estimate thickness.

Key figure from paper (note sediment thickness estimates are only plotted as coloured triangles at seismometer locations the background map coloration plots how frozen/thawed it probably is at the base of the ice sheet).

A warmer world will change weather patterns, alter habitats and shift the distribution of many animals. This will bring different populations of humans and wildlife together raising the risk of zoonotic disease jumping between them