Tag Archives: environment

Hiker Surviving in Wilderness Outlasts Expectations

By Brian Brawdy | Published: June 23, 2010

LOST doesn’t mean Lost for Good. For all of our frailty, all of our short comings, human beings can survive against tremendous odds. Though many believe that wilderness highlights human weakness, once again a survival story, this time of a missing Colorado woman reminds us just how resilient we can be. I know it sounds impossible, even [...]

Posted in Breaking News & Commentary, Buried Logic, Economy, Nature and Wildlife, Preppers, Survival and Emergency Preparedness | Also tagged Colorado, drive to survive, food, hiker, human survival, Lost, Survival, wilderness | Leave a comment

One Step Closer to a Federal Reserve Audit

By Brian Brawdy | Published: June 16, 2010

Transparency and accountability in politics and economics should always be our goal as a free society. The process of clarity and answerability is mandatory if we are to believe in and support the actions of those that represent us in Washington, DC and on Wall Street. As we watch the combining of the bills in [...]

Posted in Breaking News & Commentary, Economy, Politics and Political Parties | Also tagged Accountability, Ben Bernanke, Bernanke, Business/Finance, Congress, Criticism of the Federal Reserve, DC, Democracy, Ethics, Evaluation, Federal Reserve System, Federal Reserve Transparency Act, House of Representatives, Media transparency, Political corruption, politics, Senate, stealth in wealth, Transparency, US Federal Reserve, Washington | Leave a comment

Spent Saturday Night Testing Our Tornado Survival Skills

By Brian Brawdy | Published: June 5, 2010

BREAKING NEWS: Illinois Tornado. It was a quiet Saturday evening of pizza and TV with my children when the screen went black, followed by an ear-piercing, high-pitched tone. The National Weather Service Emergency Alert System interrupted The Incredibles, announcing a severe thunderstorm/tornado warning for three nearby counties in Illinois. Instantly, they sat up with worry [...]

Posted in Breaking News & Commentary, Nature and Wildlife, Preppers, Survival and Emergency Preparedness | Also tagged Atmospheric sciences, Disaster/Accident, Emergency Alert System, Illinois, Meteorology, Mind-ups, Natural Disaster, Safety, Storm, Thunderstorm, tornado, Tornado drill, Tornado warning, United States, Weather, Wind | 1 Comment

Study: WHO Hype More Harmful than the H1N1 Itself

By Brian Brawdy | Published: June 5, 2010

Over a year ago I renamed the Swine Flu the “Whine Flu” and wondered if the World Health Organization was scaring the globe while inflating the fears of a flu pandemic. Wow! Perhaps I should have called it the $wine Flu. Now comes a Washington Post report suggesting that some believe that the WHO exaggerated the [...]

Posted in Breaking News & Commentary, Low Lifes Making Headlines, Politics and Political Parties, Science, Survival and Emergency Preparedness | Also tagged Biology, Flu, Flu pandemic, Flu pandemic in the United Kingdom, Health in the United States, Health/Medical/Pharmaceuticals, influenza, Influenza A virus, Influenza A virus subtype H1N1, Influenza pandemic, Influenza pandemics, Microbiology, Pandemics, Swine Flu, Swine influenza, The Washington Post Company, the WHO, Washington Post, World Health Organization | Leave a comment

The Gulf Oil Slick and The Grim Reaper

By Brian Brawdy | Published: April 30, 2010

Watching the news broadcasts, reading the horrifying accounts of the oil slick reaching the Louisiana coast line, I keep hearing the words “drill baby drill” pound in my mind. Doesn’t matter who offered the term, Democrats and Republicans alike, it just makes me sick. Now that we know it’s enormity could surpass the spill of [...]

Posted in Breaking News & Commentary, Nature and Wildlife, Politics and Political Parties | Also tagged Behavior, blame, blame game, Drill, Drill baby drill, Drudge, Earth, Entertainment/Culture, Environmental issues with petroleum, Exxon Mobil Corporation, Exxon Valdez, Exxon Valdez oil spill, ExxonMobil, food, food chain, Gulf Coast, Huff, Human Interest, hunter, Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana, Louisiana coast, nature, oil slick, Oil spill, Oilfield terminology, Petroleum, Petroleum geology, politics, Predation, Safety, Technology, United States presidential election | 1 Comment

Nuclear Blast Victims Shouldn’t Look For Outside Help

By Brian Brawdy | Published: April 15, 2010

In the event of a nuclear blast detonated by a terrorist organization, the emergency response will need to be a personal one, at least in the initial 24-72 hours according to an article in USAToday. The Federal government will not be the first responders to the disaster scene. Confounded by the lack of preparation of [...]

Posted in Adventure and Exploration, Breaking News & Commentary, Buried Logic, Preppers, Survival and Emergency Preparedness | Also tagged atlantic hurricane season, Atlantic Ocean, Certified first responder, CPR, Disaster/Accident, Emergency management, Emergency medical responders, emergency response/police/fire/paramedic, Federal government, First aid, Health, Hurricane Katrina, Management, Medicine, Paramedic, politics, Public safety, Safety, Security, Self Reliance | Leave a comment

Polar Bears to Vote ‘No’ for Cap and Trade

By Brian Brawdy | Published: April 7, 2010

In a follow up to a post I did last week, What Happened to Our Retreating Arctic Sea Ice, this morning the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center is reporting “The extent of sea ice over the Arctic Ocean grew until the last day of March, the latest the annual melting season has [...]

Posted in Breaking News & Commentary, Nature and Wildlife, Politics and Political Parties, Science | Also tagged Arctic, arctic ice, Arctic Ocean, BusinessWeek, cap and trade, climate change, Colorado, Earth, Glacier, Glaciology, global warming, global warming debate, media spin, Physical geography, polar bear, Polar ice cap, Polar region, Poles, sea ice, teacher, U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center, Washington, william wordsworth | 1 Comment

Earthquakes Teach Us To Focus In The Face of Fear

By Brian Brawdy | Published: April 5, 2010

With reports pouring in about the strong 7.2 magnitude earthquake that struck Baja California, Mexico yesterday according to the USGS, my mind jumps back to this past January and the 7.0 quake that devastated the island nation of Haiti. During a CBS TV interview in Tampa, Florida the day after the Haitian horror, I commented [...]

Posted in Breaking News & Commentary, Buried Logic, Preppers, Survival and Emergency Preparedness | Also tagged American Preppers Network, Brain, California, Disaster, Disaster/Accident, earthquake, Earthquake engineering, Earthquakes, Emergency management, Florida, focusing in the face of fear, geologist, Geology, Haiti, Hazard prevention, mexico, Miami, Mind-ups, Natural Disaster, Physics, preparedness, prepper, Public safety, Quake, ring of fire, Safety, San Diego, seismologist, Seismology, Tampa, thinking on your feet | 2 Comments

Nature Does What Humans Can’t in Python Battles

By Brian Brawdy | Published: April 1, 2010

“Nature takes care of a problem that humans couldn’t get a handle on” says CNN reporter John Zarrella. His great video on the topic of an invasive and evasive reptile species overrunning the Florida Everglades is worth the watch. Apparently these sneaky snakes were no match for the extended cold temperatures this past winter in [...]

Posted in Breaking News & Commentary, Media, Nature and Wildlife, Survival and Emergency Preparedness | Also tagged climate change, CNN reporter, Conservation, Everglades, Flooded grasslands and savannas, Geography, global warming, John Zarrella, nature, Physical geography, Snake, video | Leave a comment

What Happened to Our Retreating Arctic Sea Ice?

By Brian Brawdy | Published: April 1, 2010

In a compelling article on the What’s Up With That website, Anthony Watts poses a great question. “Arctic Sea Ice about to hit ‘normal’ – what will the news say?” Don’t take my word for it; Anthony is a former television meteorologist with 25 years of experience. Now he had a bit of help from the folks [...]