About thirty years ago, on a train from Toronto to Ottawa, . . .

An optimistic post for a week filled with grim news and, as the Emissions Gap Report highlights, broken records.

I’m just back from the North American Victorians Studies Association (NAVSA) conference in Bloomington, Indiana where I gave a paper comparing (ever so briefly) two historical events that strained the language and conceptual frames available to describe them (the 1854 cholera outbreak in London and Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans in 2005). . . .

For a long time now, I’ve wanted to write a blog focused on climate reflections. Indeed, like my response to news articles that provoke or inspire me, I’ve already written many entries in my head…