A little environmental ranting...

Hey there. The world is ending. Do something. And try not to drive yourself while you do it.

I read a beautiful article, "If only gay sex caused global warming."

"NO ONE seems to care about the upcoming attack on the World Trade Center site. Why? Because it won't involve villains with box cutters. Instead, it will involve melting ice sheets that swell the oceans and turn that particular block of lower Manhattan into an aquarium.

The odds of this happening in the next few decades are better than the odds that a disgruntled Saudi will sneak onto an airplane and detonate a shoe bomb. And yet our government will spend billions of dollars this year to prevent global terrorism and … well, essentially nothing to prevent global warming."

Its worth reading.

Interesting from a psychological perspective how we (and by we, I mean a GOP-run government) are not smart enough as a human species to take steps to prevent something as oncoming and threatening as this problem.

Meanwhile, "many of Earth's lifeforms are far more sensitive to subtle climate changes than us temperature-controlling, high-tech-home-dwelling humans, and some scientists fear that the planet is poised to lose 10-50% of its species. Global warming is introducing temperatures that haven't been felt in 24 million years. 'We may very well already be on the breaking edge of a wave of mass extinctions.'" Thanks Towleroad.

Then there is also the fun news ice is melting at unprecedented rates in the North Pole. There goes Santa. "This situation is unlike anything observed in previous record low-ice seasons. It is highly imaginable that a ship could have passed from Spitzbergen or Northern Siberia through what is normally pack ice to reach the North Pole without difficulty. If this anomaly continues, the Northeast Passage, or 'Northern Sea Route' between Europe and Asia will be open over longer intervals of time, and it is conceivable we might see attempts at sailing around the world directly across the summer Arctic Ocean within the next 10 to 20 years."

And the most recent:
"Global Warming: Polar bears drowning due to melting Arctic icepack; Gore says tax pollution, not payrolls; Bush officials tried to suppress federal scientist from discussing the link between global warming and hurricanes." Thanks Towleroad.

Musical Fodder for my Writing:
"Dont Drink the Water" Dave Matthews Band,
Before These Crowded Streets