Angela V. Michaels

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Notes from the Surf XXX

Here on the Big Island a week or two ago some routine geothermal drilling led to an accidental magma find that wowed scientists. Then, last week someone here told me there had been some changes at Kilauea’s Halemaumau crater, and that the vog might get better. It has been [...]

Full moon, Earthquakes, Meteors and Solar Activity

The other day I posted a blurb in my notes about keeping an eye on earthquake activity, particularly on the US West coast. There is a full moon on its way (actually the biggest and brightest of the year), which some believe influences earthquake activity, and I took note of this random [...]

Global Warning?

Climate change is in the news. And it’s not just the UN Climate Change Commission in Bali, which recently completed negotiations for its new Bali Roadmap, the successor pact to the Kyoto Protocols regarding greenhouse gas emissions, slated to go into effect in 2013. News about all sorts of crazy [...]

Fiberglass and Resin

My surfboard is woven of millions of tiny threads of wisdom, cemented by the love with which I am gratefully surrounded. Without it I could not withstand the endless pounding of the waves – ultra-strangeness in the world, as well as in my own life. My toes grab hold, the wax which is [...]

Island Disappears Beneath the Waves

This week, an article in The Independent entitled “Disappearing world: Global warming claims tropical island” seems to confirm for the first time that an inhabited island has been officially washed off the face of the Earth by rising seas. “The obliteration of Lohachara island, in India’s part of the Sundarbans where [...]