And about bloody time.
I first
linked to the initial
Fortune article in a Jan 28 Diary (where it generated 3 whole comments - sigh...)
Two days, later, Meteor Blades gave it much-deserved front page exposure.
Now The Guardian and Mark Hertsgaard in The Nation (no free link, darn it) have helped give it much wider visibility, with excellent blogland assistance from Melanie, Billmon and others.
I especially like Billmon's observation that this issue is another excellent reason (and potentially the most important one) to tell St. Ralph to take a flying leap off a chunk of calved ice shelf:
The more serious risk, in my opinion, is not that a Democratic president might do too little to head of a short-term catastrophe, but that a Republican-controlled government will continue to do
nothing at all -- making the
longer-term catastrophe inevitable.
What does St. Ralph have to say about this? I don't know -- I stopped listening to him years ago. But to me at least it seems obvious that the battle against global climate change is going to have to fought within the world as it is, not the world as we would like it to be.
Also, check out The Nation's current cover story, "The Junk Science of George W. Bush":
Today, flat-earthers within the Bush Administration--aided by right-wing allies who have produced assorted hired guns and conservative think tanks to further their goals--are engaged in a campaign to suppress science that is arguably unmatched in the Western world since the Inquisition.
That keening sound you hear in the distance is me praying that we are nearing a national tipping point on the science issue in general, and the climate change issue in particular.