about the cilmate change: i don’t know exactly what the change would be… not to say that bad shit isn’t going down, but more i wonder if we are thinking of global warming in at all a proper way… i figure that what drastically warmer would mean here would not be that the winter is now all 22 / 72 degrees (depending on which degree-scale is used), but that it hovers around freezing all winter. fairly cold for us, but not cold so far as water is concerned…

but more what i think about is the shifing weather patterns – there is either drought or an excess of rain under the standard model of climate change. it doesn’t mean that the world heats up and dries up, but rather that the world shifts around a lot in different ways depending on location…

if we recall “an inconvenient truth,” there is the danger that a rapidly melting greenland screws up the jet stream currents and europe looses the warm winds coming in from the west which keep it relatively warm… the famed “global warming causing an ice age” fear which deniers of climate change keep on dragging up to try to prove that only bad science can create such a contradition…

in a vaguely related note: here is an interview with an evangelical conservative who advocates conservation and believes in climate change… the guy is richard cizik. i saw him in a forum discussion of religion and the state along with the head of “americans united for separation of church and state” and a few other folks… at least there, he talked about finding common ground and joked that a fundamentalist is “not much fun, a little dumb, and a lot mental”. if only he was the face of religious conservatism…

http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2005/10/05/cizik/