Weather and Water Again

Not sure if it’s coincidence but the two lead stories under “Science” on the Reuters website news page this morning were about the water crises facing rich and poor nations and the study finding that global warming does indeed affect hurricane intensity. This may be the last time I harp on this (no applause, please), but, really, will Lieberman being reelected, gays still not being able to marry, or even Social Security getting privatized come anywhere close to the impact of increasingly destructive weather and increasingly unavailable water on our civilization, on our planet? Dealing with these issues can be the unifying theme similar to WWII or civil rights in the early days that pulls people together and gets them to see the Liebermans and marriage amendments and greed of privatization for the divisive, destructive forces they are at a time when “united we stand” have never been more needed. In other words, we kill a lot of birds with one giant stone. Anyway, shouting into a wind here, I do realize, a hurricane, in fact. Only one guy could do it and Gore swears he's not running. Time to go dark on these things again at least until he decides otherwise.