Monday, June 21, 2004

Cost of Warming on the Rise
According to a Wired story, "Climate change is a fact, so the question of what to do about it boils down to this: Pay some now or pay a lot more later. Scientists at two special briefings this week warned that the effects of global warming go beyond the environment and dip into everyone's pocketbook, but the extent of the economic damage will be determined by when action is taken."

Some thirty years ago, we were being warned of the imminent arrival of the next ice age within 50 years. Who knew that the scientists of that day, armed with just 130 years of reasonably accurate weather data on which to base the cyclical weather patterns of a 4.8 billion year old planet, could be so wrong. Thankfully, the extra 30 years of data collected by today's scientists allows them to be so much more accurate. Better still, neither I nor any of the men I know use a pocketbooks so it looks like women will finally be paying their fair share unless they too switch to fanny packs, wallets, or just stuffing their money into their pockets on top of their keys, next to their cigarettes.
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