Kit Stolz

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Reporter, Story Analyst and Writer

Kit Stolz is a reporter, story analyst, and writer who moved to Upper Ojai with his family in 1991. He has written for Sierra, Wild Earth, The Los Angeles Times, and The Georgia Review, among many other publications, and is a long-term contributor to the VC Reporter. In 2004, in an attempt to keep up with the downpour of information on global warming, he began the blog A Change in the Wind, which soon attracted the attention of the environmental site Grist, to which he also contributes. He is happy to join the tribe at the Ojai Post, and gives a special shout out to another tribe of idealistic wunderfolk, Ojai's own Theatre 150, led by the hard-working team of Deb Norton and Chris Nottoli.

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Antichrist: Don’t Blame Me for Fed Gov Actions

by Kit Stolz April 1, 2010

In an exclusive interview with the Ojai Post, the Antichrist spoke out against militia groups and “other bad actors” who are arming themselves against his reappearance on earth and said he had nothing to do with the Federal government.
“Don’t blame me if the FBI is on your case because you’re a…

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Foreign Correspondent to Speak about Haitian Crisis

by Kit Stolz January 31, 2010

Nomi Morris, an honest-to-God foreign correspondent, who put together a special report on Haiti a few years back for the Canadian newsmagazine Macleans, will speak on the earthquake and the humanitarian crisis in Haiti tonight evening at Theater 150.
She’s a friend, a good speaker, and a good answerer of questions,…

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El Nino 2010: Small, medium, large…or wanna-be?

by Kit Stolz January 15, 2010

The infamous El Niño, bringer of warm winters and rain to Southern California, is back, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration says, and thanks to a surprisingly wet November, we’re still ahead of normal in our total rainfall for this water year.
Wouldn’t you like to know what all that really means?
The truth…

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Acorns Appear Abundant: Wet Winter on the Way?

by Kit Stolz November 18, 2009

According to climatologists, it’s going to be wet this winter.

Experts on El Niño, the well-known global weather circulation pattern that often brings warm winters and heavy rain to the West Coast, recently released a chart showing the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) strengthening across the Pacific.
This is good news for those…

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The Gifts of Uncertainty: Joanna Macy Speaks to the Present Moment

by Kit Stolz October 31, 2009

The Ojai Foundation, a sanctuary for spiritual seekers of all sorts, this week inaugurated a “great teacher series” by bringing deep ecologist and Buddhist Joanna Macy in to lead a workshop and give a talk.
A truly inspiring talk it was, and that’s coming from one who is skeptical about gurus and leaders of all sorts, be they Buddhist, Christian, Democratic, ecological, you name it.
It’s so easy, so enjoyable really, to turn our problems over to some one else to solve.

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SoCal Megadroughts and Megafires: Caused by Global Warming?

by Kit Stolz September 23, 2009

On an insufferably hot Santa Ana condition day in SoCal, with a big fire eating its way into the Moorpark area, it’s worth asking if the fires we face this year are directly linked to the lack of rain we’ve experienced for the last three years, and if they are linked, more broadly, to the “megadrought” identified by numerous researchers that has taken hold in SoCal in the latter half of this century.

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El Nino or El Fizzle?

by Kit Stolz September 22, 2009

This year’s expected El Nino (the boy child) is looking considerably less robust than advertised just three months ago.

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Swine Flu Outbreak Exposes Media Weakness

by Kit Stolz May 1, 2009

As Suza Francina discussed earlier this week, considerable evidence points to the possibility of a link between a factory pig farm in the Vera Cruz area and the outbreak of the swine flu in Mexico. Tom Philpott, who writes about agriculture issues for Grist, and Tom Laskawy, who writes about public…

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Climate: It’s Not Just a Metaphor

by Kit Stolz March 5, 2009

On yesterday’s radio news show Here and Now, economist Roger Lowenstein warned that Medicare is on track to fail in 2016. By sheer coincidence, 2016 is also the year that the Arctic will be ice-free in the summer, according to the climate pessimists.
But there’s a difference between these two crises. Fixing…

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Launch of Satellite to Measure Carbon in Atmosphere Fails, Falls to Earth

by Kit Stolz February 27, 2009

Early Tuesday morning, NASA launched a satellite from Vandenberg Air Force intended to map the flows of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The rocket launch went smoothly, but three hundred and twenty five miles above earth, the satellite’s protective nosecone failed to open and brought the satellite back to earth.…

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