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Tag Archives: Water Crisis
"The Bird Saviors" Imagines Another Dust Bowl: Could This Happen Again?
So one of the tricks of writing a novel set in the “near future” is that whatever reality you come up with should be relevant, conceivable, and interesting, and of course I hope I’ve pulled that off in my new … Continue reading
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Tagged Climate Change, Drought, The Bird Saviors, Water Crisis, Wildfires
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Fires, Plagues of Locusts, and Chiggers: Signs of the Apocalypse in Colorado, Or Is That Global Warming in Your Pocket?
So I believe in the biblical apocalypse as much as I do the Tooth Fairy, but replace the word “apocalypse” with “global warming” and we’re onto something real. The back roads of Custer County, Colorado are now covered with swarms … Continue reading
Posted in Birding, books, Climate Change, Economics, Politics, The West, Water Crisis, writing
Tagged Climate Change, The Bird Saviors, Water Crisis, Wildfires
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Fires in the West a Sign of Things To Come: Prophecies in "The Bird Saviors" Coming True, Unfortunately
So my novel The Bird Saviors is set in the “near future,” which I always thought to be something like five to ten years from now, but some of the calamities forecast in the story are unfolding right now—particularly an … Continue reading
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Tagged Birding, Climate Change, Good Fiction, The Bird Saviors, Water Crisis, Wildfires
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Alex Prud'homme's "The Ripple Effect" Excellent Summation of Western Drought/Drying Out, as NOAA Notes This Spring Was Warmest on Record, by 5 degrees!
So I’m continuing to read the tome (a word I rarely use) that is Alex Prud’homme’s The Ripple Effect, on the myriad water problems we face in the 21st century, and I’m up to the chapters on drought and the … Continue reading
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Tagged Climate Change, Water Crisis, Wildlife photos
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