lummi island wine tasting Feb 13, ’26
Open Fridays thru February 4-6 pm
And yup, it’ll still be wintah for all of ’em!
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This week’s wine tasting
Bodega Garzon Tannat Reserve ’18 Uruguay $15
Opaque deep, dark red; opens with enticing, delicious aromas of very ripe, dark fruit and berries stewed in their own liqueur, with lingering notes of spice, herb, and licorice on the seamless finish.
Decoy Red ’21 California $18
60% Cab, 40% Merlot, & splashes of Zin and Syrah; nose of blackberry, dark plum, spice and herbs; fresh, rich, and savory with rich,silky tannins, bright acidity and long, lush finish.
Antonio Sanguineti Passo Santo White Dessert Wine Italy $18
Passo Santo (“blessed moment”) light dessert wine with notes of toasted hazelnuts, caramel, honey, and dried apricot, great with rich biscotti or crème brûlée, and zingy enough to pair nicely with cheese at the end of a meal.
Economics of the Heart: The Other Approach to Climate Change
In summer of 1980 ( omg, 45 years ago!) I spent the summer at Battelle labs in Richland working on a project funded by DOE on the economic impact of carbon-induced climate change. That was very early in the climate game. I had a paper published on my piece of the work the following year (an early look at possible impacts on fisheries), which led about a year later to a call from CBC in Toronto for an on-air interview. ( fisheries have long been a Big part of the Canadian economy)
The last question in the interview was about what happens next, and my immediate guess was that given the $value of fossil fuels in the global economy, the fossil fuel producers would continue to make progress difficult. Well, that turned out to be the understatement of the century!
Fast forward to today, and the Tweetster’s cozy arrangements with BIG $Donors in the energy biz led to an article in today’s NYT announcing his unilateral sh*t-canning of the global scientific consensus that climate change endangers all life on Earth.
Roughly translated, such a policy would end, in the largest national economy in the world, all efforts to slow and reverse the carbon-caused destruction of environmental and ecosystems quality that we know with certainty has followed from massive increases in expansion of global population and industrial production, and which is killing our planet.
The graph above shows that the problem is not just that global population of human beings has been increasing rapidly since the end of WWII. It’s that energy production has been increasing along with it.
So…maybe increasing fossil fuel production is just the autistic billionaires’ logical notion of a better world for fewer people. So hey, instead of turning toward green energy and a better world for billions, if enough people just, um, “went away,” the surviving trillionaire-igarchs would have their perfect world. You know, with more energy left over to keep Bitcoin and AI growing.
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