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Climate Change, Water, the Environment and National Security: An Annotated History of U.S. Defense, Intelligence, and Security Assessments (Part 1: to 2010)

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 9d

“No more climate change worship... We are done with that shit.”
Hegseth announces he's going to ignore 40+ years of US defense and intelligence assessments on the real threat of #climatechange for international security and military operations and bases.

Look here.
www.gleick.com/blog/climate...

Summary: For more than half a century, U.S. intelligence and defense communities have worked to understand the threats to national and international security from a range of enviro

www.gleick.com

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Cliff Crego @cliffcrego.bsky.social · 7d

#ClimateBREAKDOWN The Blob & Beyond, or the extreme warming of ocean waters off the coast of OREGON soundcloud.com/cliff-crego/...

🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵 #OREGON #Klimakrise

The Blob & Beyond, or the extreme warming of ocean waters off the coast of OREGON

From the perspective of the high alpine terrain of Northeast, Oregon, where I am currently doing compositional and photography fieldwork, the Pacific Ocean seems impossibly far away. And yet, from the

THINKING LIKE A STONEPINE, a soundpoem manifesto…

Cliff Crego @cliffcrego.bsky.social · 8d

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Cliff Crego @cliffcrego.bsky.social · 8d

#RiotAtTheRITE #music & #poetry #Whitebarkpine 🌲

Cliff Crego @cliffcrego.bsky.social · 8d

#music #poetry #ClimateBREAKDOWN “THINKING LIKE A STONEPINE, a soundpoem manifesto…” vimeo.com/844665859

“…the metaphysical urgencies
of the present moment…”

#Whitebarkpine #wilderness #EagleCapWilderness #OREGON 🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵 #WALLOWAS #trekking #backpacking #musicsky

This is "THINKING LIKE A STONEPINE, a soundpoem manifesto…" by Cliff Crego on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

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Cliff Crego @cliffcrego.bsky.social · 8d

#RiotAtTheRITE #music & #poetry #Whitebarkpine 🌲

CLIMATE BREAKDOWN reports

Cliff Crego @cliffcrego.bsky.social · 8d

🎵 TIMES TWELVE, #music & #poetry side by side “SUNSIGHT!” mp3 [53Mb] www.picture-poems.com/mp3/times-tw...

(1) SUNSIGHT! for #BuckyFULLER
(2) LOVE SONG
(3) Unholy Land
(4) THE BELL
…(6) LOSS OF TRUTH w/ DESERTS / #VARESE
… (12) ORACLE “It took the whole world by surprise”

🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵 #musicsky

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Cliff Crego @cliffcrego.bsky.social · 9d

CLIMATE BREAKDOWN Reports soundcloud.com/cliff-crego/...

In 12 minutes or less, explore the key concepts of climate science in the most recent work of the best scientists. Upbeat, powered by #GEMINI #AI

🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵 #Klimakrise #OREGON #WALLOWAS #climatesky

In 12 minutes or less, explore the key concepts of climate science in the most recent work of the best scientists. Upbeat, powered by GEMINI AI, with special emphasis on the glacier melt in the ALPS,

Cliff Crego @cliffcrego.bsky.social · 10d

#ClimateBREAKDOWN Reports, 500X Baseline: How Black Carbon and Wildfires Flip the Switch on Mountain Snow Melt

mp3 [120Mb] www.picture-poems.com/mp3/500x_alb...

Text pdf www.picture-poems.com/pdfs/the-amp...

🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵 #Klimakrise #climatesky #OREGON #ALPS #WALLOWAS #AI #gemini

Ralph interviews New York Times reporter, David Gelles, about his new book, “Dirtbag Billionaire: How Yvon Chouinard Built Patagonia, Made a Fortune, and Gave It All Away.” Then, we welcome back forme...

Cliff Crego @cliffcrego.bsky.social · 10d

#trekking Dirtbag Billionaire - Ralph Nader Radio Hour www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/p/dirtbag-bi...

Ralph interviews New York Times reporter, David Gelles, about his new book, “Dirtbag Billionaire: How #YvonChouinard Built Patagonia, Made a Fortune, and Gave It All Away.”

#ethics #AI #backpacking 🥾

Dirtbag Billionaire

www.ralphnaderradiohour.com

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Cliff Crego @cliffcrego.bsky.social · 11d

#ClimateBREAKDOWN 500X Baseline: How Black Carbon and Wildfires Flip the Switch on Mountain Snow Melt soundcloud.com/cliff-crego/...

🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵 #Klimakrise #ALPS #CH #SWITZERLAND #Wallowas #OREGON #climatesky #skiing #Schnee #ALBEDO

500X Baseline: How Black Carbon and Wildfires Flip the Switch on Mountain Snow Melt

IMAGE: Winter ski mountaineering in the WALLOWAS, Northeast OREGON A key aspect of the CLIMATE BREAKDOWN Reports is both learning and developing ‘on the fly’, so to speak, a new DESCRIPTIVE LANGUAGE

🎵 #music #poetry SUNSIGHT! A soundpoem https://vimeo.com/840482816 Sunrise. No! Sunsight. Yes! Fuller was right. Each morning the Earth turns to greet the Sun We…

Cliff Crego @cliffcrego.bsky.social · 11d

🎶 #music #poetry SUNSIGHT, a soundpoem, for #BuckyFULLER vimeo.com/840482816

TAKES you on an 8’ walkabout in
the #Whitebarkpine country of the
#EagleCapWilderness #WALLOWAS
#OREGON

🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵 #trekking 🥾 #bikepacking 🚴🏼‍♂️ #musicsky

SUNSIGHT, a soundpoem

The Blob & Beyond, or the extreme warming of ocean waters off the coast of OREGON

Cliff Crego @cliffcrego.bsky.social · 11d

#ClimateBREAKDOWN The Blob & Beyond, or the extreme warming of ocean waters off the coast of OREGON soundcloud.com/cliff-crego/...

🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵 #OREGON #WALLOWAS 🌲

From the perspective of the high alpine terrain of Northeast, Oregon, where I am currently doing compositional and photography fieldwork, the Pacific Ocean seems impossibly far away. And yet, from the

Cliff Crego @cliffcrego.bsky.social · 11d

#trekking Krag Peak Basin 2400m Fall Equinox aspect #EagleCapWilderness

This #foto is a 6-day #BIKE 🚴🏼‍♂️
to #PORTLAND The totally bogus
projected #TRUMP reality will have
us believe #PDX is a war zone?
How does Gov. Tina KOTEK put up
w/ such mafia-style bullying?
In #OREGON we‘re better than that!

Pacific Northwest National Lab scientist and Hanford manager on radioactive tank waste, vitrification and clean-up progress - Think Out Loud

Cliff Crego @cliffcrego.bsky.social · 12d

An excellent report by Dave MILLER & OPB: Pacific Northwest National Lab scientist and Hanford manager on radioactive tank waste, vitrification and clean-up progress - Think Out Loud play.cdnstream1.com/s/opb/think-...

#HANFORD #nuclear 😱 #OREGON #WASHINGTON

play.cdnstream1.com

Cliff Crego @cliffcrego.bsky.social · 13d

#musicsky 🎵TIMES EIGHT:— #music & #poetry, side by side “BLATTEN, A Tragedy in the Swiss ALPS” by Cliff Crego soundcloud.com/cliff-crego/...

MUSIC? The one thing humans do
that makes the rest of NATURE jealous.

🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵 #wilderness #climateBREAKDOWN #WALLOWAS #OREGON 🌲

TIMES EIGHT:—music & poetry, side by side “BLATTEN, A Tragedy in the Swiss ALPS”

1) FOUR ROMANCES & MYSTERY FLOWER (2) RILKE “I am home between dream and day” (3) POD with Simone de HAAN, trombone (4) VARÈSE: Integrales (fragment) (5) BLATTEN: A Tragedy in the Swiss Alps (6) EVERY

RMBL, Gothic COLORADO, at 2800m, the highest biological research lab in North America

Cliff Crego @cliffcrego.bsky.social · 13d

#ClimateBREAKDOWN RMBL, Gothic COLORADO, at 2800m, the highest biological research lab in North America soundcloud.com/cliff-crego/...

READ full report “A Sentinel of Change: The Enduring Work of RMBL”

pdf www.picture-poems.com/pdfs/rmbl.pdf

🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵 #climatesky #Klimakrise #phenology #AI

Read the full CLIMATE BREAKDOWN Report “A Sentinel of Change: The Enduring Work of the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory” [generated w/ GEMINI AI] pdf http://www.picture-poems.com/pdfs/rmbl.pdf

Science and Spirit (Full Version): A Talk Given by David Bohm

Cliff Crego @cliffcrego.bsky.social · 13d

#science #spirituality Science and Spirit: A Talk Given by David Bohm (1992) www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI97...

How can a coherent #CULTURE
come about?

#nonviolence #dialogue #DavidBOHM

YouTube video by David Bohm Society

www.youtube.com

CLOUD SEEDING, or when the ILLUSION OF CONTROL becomes reality…

Cliff Crego @cliffcrego.bsky.social · 13d

#ClimateBREAKDOWN CLOUD SEEDING, or when the ILLUSION OF CONTROL becomes reality… soundcloud.com/cliff-crego/...

🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵 #AI #Klimakrise #climatesky

The basic idea of CLIMATE BREAKDOWN Reports is to use the power of AI to generate the kind of urgent, ethical, science-based journalism that a real climate emergency demands. In the summer of 2024 I

THE UNIVERSE IS GREEN, a love song…

Cliff Crego @cliffcrego.bsky.social · 13d

🎵 #music & #poetry THE UNIVERSE IS GREEN, a soundpoem… vimeo.com/843241448

For Pete… . . .

🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵 #poetica #filosofia #WALLOWAS #OREGON #musicsky #viriditas #HildegardvonBINGEN

We are all as different as the shapes of leaves. Only in the wild protected space of eternal friendship do our own unique, separate, voices, fully flower. for…

Lights out for fireflies? Climate change, pesticides and light pollution threaten lightning bug population

Cliff Crego @cliffcrego.bsky.social · 13d

#trekking Eagle Cap north face, from MIRROR LAKE at 2300m, #Whitebarkpine Country

Cache #BIKE 🚴🏼‍♂️ at 1700m 2 Pan Trailhead
LOSTINE VALLEY. Spectacular run up
South to Eagle Cap 2900m. Snow
Sunday down to 2000m, but will
melt off once clear

#foto #bikepacking #backpacking 🌲

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Cliff Crego @cliffcrego.bsky.social · 13d

#Climatesky Minnesota's firefly population at risk due to climate change, scientists say | MPR News, w/ Paul HUTTNER www.mprnews.org/episode/2025...

#ClimateBREAKDOWN

MPR News Chief Meteorologist Paul Huttner talked with journalist Eric Berger about the declining population rate for fireflies across the country.

www.mprnews.org

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Cliff Crego @cliffcrego.bsky.social · 13d

#NativeAMERICAN 'Told in the Hills (1919)’ restored www.lmtribune.com/inland-360/s...

Filmed in Kamiah, on the spectacular Clearwater
River, IDAHO w/ some 100 Nimiipoo /
NEZ PERCE tribal members.
Original score by Diné composer
Connor Chee to be performed live!

#MOSCOW #IDAHO #musicsky

Idaho’s first feature film 'Told in the Hills' restored, set to premie...

Historic film premieres in restored format at Kenworthy’s Silent Film Festival in Moscow

www.lmtribune.com

Cliff Crego @cliffcrego.bsky.social · 14d

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Cliff Crego @cliffcrego.bsky.social · 15d

#ClimateBREAKDOWN CLOUD SEEDING, or when the ILLUSION OF CONTROL becomes an objectively real weather modification technique soundcloud.com/cliff-crego/...

🌕 #Sun2Sound 🎵 #Klimakrise #KurtVonnegut #skiing #bike 🚴🏼‍♂️ #bikepacking #IDAHO #OREGON

CLOUD SEEDING, or when the ILLUSION OF CONTROL becomes an objectively real weather modification technique

The basic idea of CLIMATE BREAKDOWN Reports is to use the power of AI to generate the kind of urgent, ethical, science-based journalism that a real climate emergency demands. In the summer of 2024 I