Occasionally I read something that drives a point home in a way
that nothing else has to date. This morning is such a time.
The scariest thing that I've seen in a long, long time. The Amazon
rain forest is in a protracted drought, and quote possibly on its way
to becoming a desert. Not in the next thousand years or something like
that. Perhaps
in the next thousand days. If it comes to pass, it could
release as much as 90 billion tons of carbon into the atmosphere, with
immediate, irreversible, and catastrophic results.
The article uses the phrase "world becoming uninhabitable." And
these aren't wild-eyed tree huggers. These are the scientists at Woods
Hole, one of the most respected research labs in the world.
Looks like mother Earth may be getting ready to get rid of most of
us like a bad case of fleas. We may have destroyed our home already.
Addendum: that article is now for-fee. Here are some other links to
the same subject:
Lazy Saturday over here. Sorry for the dearth of posts;
nothing of interest to write. I've been working, seeing a lot of a
wonderful woman, and getting the Threadgill's MySpace
page online. All very lifelike. :)
Will try to make your click worth it again in a day or two...
The senatorial primary in Connecticut is coming up, and Lamont has
Lieberman on the ropes by all accounts. (Enough that Lieberman is
collecting signatures to run as an independent if he loses. It's
causing quite a dust-up in the party.)
Anyway, the ads are getting pretty good on Lamont's side. Take a
look:
Coolness. Edge Magazine has an interview with one of my favorite
authors, cosmologist Lawrence Krauss. (His book "Atom"
should be required reading for every human being. It is a
comprehensive review of what we currently know about the universe and
life, from the point of view of an oxygen atom, starting about a
picosecond after the big bang. And it's written so well and flows so
easily that you don't realize you're getting a wide-ranging college
level overview of the state of our knowledge until you finish... and
then you turn to page one and start over again for fun...)
Anyway, he's an Über-cool guy, and the interview is interesting to
me. Take a look-see if you like.
