Hi Readers! You may have wound up here on on SkyWaterEarth website and blog. Just wanted you to know that I am now publishing on Substack.com. You can find over 50 posts on climate, nature and communications at https://skywaterearthhobie1.substack.com/ Hope you enjoy. We are all connected. Savor the Earth!’™ – [...]
Why So Much Reaction To Project 2XXX and So Little About Chorus 2026? I see a lot on social media about Project 2XXX and how bad it is. It is indeed dark. I read a lot about how the president is a Nazi, a fascist, and a dictator. He would [...]
Why are you paying to build pornographic storage data centers powered by dirty fracked gas? Language is the key to winning the political debate. Unfortunately, as climate activists build fact sheets on data centers, we have failed to learn the lessons of language and framing from conservatives. Do you [...]
90% of Climate Champions Will Read This Post. Here's Why...* 10 carefully selected people sit around a faux mahogany table for a discussion. Two of the 10 are unknowing experimental subjects. The two have been interviewed on a number of topics and selected because their belief in aliens was [...]
Overcoming Two Biases in Our Climate Communications What makes us think we can survive the climate crisis? Certainly, a large portion of our country isn’t concerned. One of our political parties has their heads in the sand or some other place. Of course we are an optimistic species. But [...]
A flash from the corner of my eye, an old man’s floater, causes me to pause and wonder at the failings of my body. Then I turn my head to follow the direction of this meteor across my vision. There on the ground sits a young Cooper’s hawk not [...]
Leapfrogging the era of carbon pollution There’s a maxim by Dr. George Lakoff, a neuro-linguist and professor emeritus at U.C. Berkeley that says, “All politics are moral. Our political debate is about what is right and wrong.” Instinctually, this is why many politicians and demagogs try to frame their [...]
But They Are Fighting Us and the Cause of Their Demise The news on climate is bad, and it’s depressing. Our situation is getting worse and we’re in a world of hurt. We have the solutions to the climate challenge, yet it’s become a political issue, and rational solutions [...]
You don’t see many hitchhikers today. Likely due to too many exposés on axe-murderers in our media. It creates a lack of trust of our fellow man lowering the probability of getting picked up. When I was a kid, I hitchhiked to both coasts from Minnesota. I traded the [...]
- To Fight Right Wing Climate Fascism Follow Sefton Delmer (trigger warning – profanity ahead) In America, we now live in a full blown world of climate disinformation, propaganda, and political obstruction. The climate issue and politics are inextricably linked. One side has formed a coalition of fossil fuel [...]
