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“Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.”

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Lazy Posting,
or,
A Greek Bearing Gifts (of Bad News)

OK, so since things have been going really well in my life--happy marriage, new house, sister likes her job in Florida, etc.--I decided to focus on the bad news in the world, so as to prepare myself for when the other shoe drops and we loose our jobs and the house because we can't pay the mortgage...

Um.

Irish Americans are notoriously superstitious. And try as I might to apply logic to things, I'm still superstitious whenever anything good is going on in my life that the universe is out of balance and something bad has to happen.

Luckily, none of the following has happened to me:

• The wrath of 2007: America's great drought: "But the long-term implications are escaping nobody. Climatologists see a growing volatility in the south-east's weather - today's drought coming close on the heels of devastating hurricanes two to three years ago. In the West, meanwhile, a growing body of scientific evidence suggests a movement towards a state of perpetual drought by the middle of this century. ... While some of this year's dry weather is cyclical ... some of it portends more permanent changes. In Arizona, the tall mountains in the southern Sonoran desert known as "sky islands" because they have been welcome refuges from the desert heat for millennia, have already shown unmistakable signs of change."

  Well, if you ask me it was stupid to build in the desert; one look at the Anasazi ruins should tell you that. Me, I'll stay in happily-humid Pennsylvania.

• Japanese nuke plant leaked after earthquake: Hey, I wanted my very own Gozilla too, but this isn't the way to do it.

• U.S. oil may hit $95 if OPEC does not hike output:

• Are these the last days of the Oil Age?: "27 of the 51 oil-producing nations listed in BP’s Statistical Review of World Energy reported output declines in 2006. One projection of world crude oil production actually forecasts a 10 per cent reduction in total world output between 2005 and 2015. That would be a revolution. ...The five-year view taken by the IEA is itself a central forecast. Some analysts think that the peak oil moment has already been reached; some still think that it will not come until 2020 – which is itself only 12 years away. Market trends and the statistics both support the IEA’s view that consumption is accelerating and supplies falling faster than expected. Of course, if the “crunch” point is only five years’ away for oil, and closer for natural gas, it has, for practical purposes, already arrived."

  Oh Yay. Hey, I like Jericho too, but I don't want to live there. On the other hand, a dropkick to the 19th century would force me to get better at knitting...

And then there's always Pakistan, Iraq, the last Harry Potter book, etc. But something that might be good news: "Icebergs unleashed by warming poles, it turns out, are hotbeds for carbon-absorbing life". But not being a scientist, I have no idea if that's true.

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