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Showing posts with label north pole. Show all posts

31 August 2008

an island

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14 May 2008

at last

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I come to you from the extreme northwest of California. It is a far different climate than Los Angeles and San Diego... even from San Francisco. Just now -- mid-May -- there is a blast furnace wind out of the southeast blowing a hot gale through my house. The only thing that makes this bearable is the sea trying to compete with it through my north window. This doesn't ever happen and especially not in May, so if they are right about this listing opening the door for lowering carbon emissions... oh... darn....

[Update: And let us not kid ourselves that this will DO anything good before next year at the earliest.]

17 October 2007

oh, joy, the more the merrier

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The story behind this breaking news is pretty funny. The source from which I took it was billing it as Britain jumping into the fray with Russia, and everybody else, in the Arctic and I started to fall for it... until that pesky little prefix in the actual article started boring a hole in my brain and I was forced to amend my post quickly!

I'm uncertain whether to call it the Cold Cold War, the Hot Cold War or Cold War II or what... but as long as I can figure a way to keep them from further endangering polar critters, this is very promising news.

A spokesman for Greenpeace called the move "colossally irresponsible" and accused the British government of putting more effort into securing future oil rights than battling climate change.

Tee hee, those humorless environmentalists! Of course they're putting more effort into securing oil rights. Duh! If everybody gets really cranky about who has dibs on the unfreezing goodies on the North and South Poles, they can busy themselves posturing for each other, loot their own treasuries without having to slaughter innocents, while real adults get together to solve the CO₂ problem behind their greed-hunched backs!

This is my plan. Since no one will stop them, just divert them.... They may even want that by now....

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