Explainer: The IPCC’s August 2021 Climate Change Report
The organization that has both received the Nobel Peace Prize and has been called the “gold standard” on climate change science has just issued its latest installment of its ongoing series of reports. The takeaway from the report is, “Oh crap, this is bad.” On August 9, 2021, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) …
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HAPPY ANNIVERSARY
One year ago today, January 7, 2018, I was on a business trip to Oklahoma City. Earlier that morning I noticed a slight distortion in the vision of my right eye along the very bottom, almost as though there was mucus along my eyelid. It had been two years since I had experienced NAION, https://tinyurl.com/y72a6xfp, …
SO, YOU WANT TO WRITE A NOVEL?
Since finding out that I have written a novel many people have told me that one of their bucket list goals is to write a novel. They’ve asked me many questions. Here are a few of their questions and my thoughts and takeaways. 1. I’m not sure what I want to write about, but what do …
WHAT IS CLIMATE CHANGE?
This is complicated, so I’m going to break it down. I’ll send out a series of FAQs on this. Stick with me for a minute. There are a couple of concepts you need to know then you can take a break. First, climate change is not weather. It is not a single Category 5 hurricane …
NAAION
Joel Burcat contracted non-arteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy in his left eye in July 2016. This disease caused permanent blindness in that eye. While he could still see, he could no longer see well enough to read out of that eye and the disease made correction–either through lenses or an operation–impossible. On January 7, 2018, …