Three Generations in Antarctica

From Bill Gates' blog. Yeah, he's one of us although I doubt he's the one slaving over the fucking keyboard.

On a recent family trip, Bill witnessed great natural beauty and further evidence of global warming – even in one of the coldest places on Earth.

When I gave my ten-year-old son a chance to pick anywhere in the world to go with me and two of his grandparents, he chose Antarctica. I was thrilled. It’s the only continent I’d never visited, a continent with no indigenous people, where the largest land animal is a tiny, wingless fly.

We flew down to Chile (before the earthquake) and then took a special plane to the Antarctic Peninsula. It’s incredibly beautiful. Icebergs and icy mountains make up most of the landscape. The penguins are amazing. But winter temperatures there have risen by five degrees centigrade [41° Fahrenheit], which is changing the icepack and the penguin habitat quite dramatically. The warming being seen worldwide is magnified in the Antarctic Peninsula.

That's a damn interesting son he has there. Mine would have chosen Disneyland®.



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Damn…Hot And Windy

Climate change is for real and this is the proof. Right? Just look at those temperatures. Case closed.

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Snow in Atlanta

I'm hearing reports of snow in Atlanta Georgia.

That's about as unusual as a dry spell in Seattle Washington. Yeah, there are more Washingtons than DC in the US.

For the uninitiated, it rains almost every day in Seattle. Ducks love the fucking place.

Hip, hip, hooray!

This is a very deserving nomination although I have no idea why they chose the category of peace. Perhaps its the closest pertinent category available.

Former US Vice President Al Gore has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his climate campaign.

Gore had been nominated for his wide-ranging efforts to draw the world's attention to the dangers of global warming, a Norwegian politician said today.

“A prerequisite for winning the Nobel Peace Prize is making a difference, and Al Gore has made a difference,” said Boerge Brende, a former minister of environment in Norway.

Brende said he joined with a political opponent, Heidi Soerensen of the Socialist Left Party, to nominate Gore as well as Canadian Inuit activist Sheila Watt-Cloutier for the prize ahead of today’s nomination deadline.

(courtesy link)