we ceratinly do. dead set in the middle of them. one month period thats about half our rainfall for the year. humidity in the 80s, temps in the 110s. gorgeous sunsets reddened by mile high 5 mile thick walls of moving dust and debris.
On 7/26/05, Jed Rothwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > > -- "Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write" Voltaire
