The good news is that, so far, this hurricane season is a bust. Upper-atmosphere winds have picked up speed, and that keeps HH from forming. The bad news is, the weather has other ways to be extreme. In this country, we have been focussed on flooding in Texas, but England’s had the same problem, with much of its wheat crop rotting in the field. And of course, it snowed in Buenos Aires for the first time since 1918. How does that fit in with global warming? It fits in with the weather getting crazy, that’s how.
Meanwhile, there’s good news in a rising hue and cry over the framing of ethanol as an ecological fuel, with the unlikely trio of Fidel Castro, The Economist, and UN Environmental Program Director Achim Steiner all agreeing on the risk ethanol poses to the world food supply.
In the US, Rep. John Dingell, the Representative for the Big Three Automakers (and, to be fair, an longtime, outspoken advocate of universal health care), gets our Truth In Strange Places award this month for calling for a carbon tax that would add fifty cents a gallon to the price of gasoline. He also said that he didn’t expect his proposal to be adopted. He’s probably right. Congress is going to go on bending to the special interests until tidewater laps at the capital steps. And then it will be too late. So, enjoy this summer as much as you possibly can, folks. It’s probably never going to be this good again.
music: The Goddess Alchemy Project, “Secrets”
