Icy Bay, Alaska. A century ago, the water of this bay was covered by ice. NASA.   It does not look likely the Biden administration will act in time to forestall the predicted punishing rage of climate change.    The treachery of the Republicans   The country, but especially its political class, is divided sharply as if on the eve of civil war. The so-called Republican senators are united in their opposition to any government measures to diminish the consumption (perpetual burning) of fossil fuels, prime causes of climate chaos.    Even among the Democratic senators, one from West Virginia,  Joe Manchin , denounced Biden’s climate legislation with a projected expenditures of $ 555 billion for building the country’s renewable energy infrastructure against climate catastrophe. Yet Biden was hopeful he could resolve the differences with Manchin, a fierce protector of coal.   The Manchin episode of holding a gun on Biden’s largest effort to do somethin...

  Dionysos or man dancing among trees. A bird brings food to fledgelings while a snake and locusts approach (left). East Greek Little Master Cup was made in Samos but found in Etruria. c. 550 BCE. Louvre. Courtesy Wikipedia. Klick on the next link to find yourself almost a participant in a modern version of a very ancient Dionysian tradition of singing and dancing in the small island of Leros in the Aegean Sea. It's beautiful. Καμουτζέλες (Απόκριες, Λέρος) ~ Τρεις καλές γειτόνισσες, Αράπικος, Πιπέρι, Λέρικος, Καριώτικα