Search results for: “global warming”
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Blogging Authors
Excellent post AND comments on blogging writers. I haven’t addressed this subject until now; the uproar has finally died down, or I’m late to the party, however you prefer to look it it. Still, it’s an interesting subject. What does any writer hope to gain by maintaining a weblog (which, if done well, is a…
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Wow! The Coming Ice Age!
Antarctica’s ice mass is expanding. Sea levels are falling. The next Ice Age is coming. Start polluting — fast — before glaciers overrun Kentucky. Or not. I’ve ranted about the whole global warming/ cooling/ sky-is-falling bid to control us through fear before. Will probably erupt over it in the future, too. We do well to…
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Oh, God, Oh, God, The Sky Is Falling
Since the early 1980s, the civilized world has been crushed beneath sheets of onrushing glacial ice. We’ve watched in horror as the world’s great cities have fallen beneath those relentless, grinding masses, as the lights have gone out in heartbreaking, poignant flickers, overrun by darkness that will not retreat for thousands of years, if ever.…
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Productive Day Off
Finished reading POMPEII, by Robert Harris. Highly, highly recommend it. There was one paragraph at the end that made me laugh, and nearly made me cry, simply because it is so true. Not a spoiler of any sort, so I’ll quote: Men mistook measurement for understanding. And they always had to put themselves at the…
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Damn. This is awesome.
In my ongoing campaign to assure you that the sky is indeed falling*, the end of the world is nigh, and dogs and cats will soon be living together while glaciers devour your back yard as your house floats out to sea in the Alaskan tropics during this Worst Year Ever For Hurricanes, I bring…