The New York Times has an editorial today about global warming. It begins:
"A Few Degrees
By any measure, this has already been a summer of extremes. The brutality
of the record-setting heat that lay over the desert Southwest for the past
two weeks may have broken at last, but it has not really dissipated. . .
. Life is barely tolerable in Phoenix during an ordinary summer, when the
monsoons arrive on schedule. . . ."
I did not know they had monsoons in Phoenix, Arizona.
Anyway, the editorial ends: "We survive at such high temperatures only with
huge expenditures of energy. Those who cannot afford the energy run the
risk of death." To which I would respond: "Yo! Mr. Times! That would be all
of us. Our whole civilization. And it is not a 'risk.' Death is inevitable
unless we develop radically new sources of energy."
Anyway, the New York Times will never print a letter from me, but I asked
Ed Storms and some others to send a brief message.
Here is a message I sent to some newspaper reporters yesterday:
The on-line German magazine Telepolis published an article today advocating
a crash program to develop cold fusion to combat global warming. This is
what your editorial should have said. See: "Time to act! The world needs an
Apollo-type program for cold fusion":
English version: http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/20/20585/1.html
German version: http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/20/20562/1.html
. . .
Haiko's article is a huge contrast to the New York Times, isn't it?
- Jed
