Weather, Water, Energy 8-28-06

From the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, a San Fran Chronicle article (!) on how energy industry executives are readying themselves for the inevitable regulation as a result of global warming, which they all but unanimously (if not cheerfully) accept. The options are going ahead and cutting the best deals v. prolonging the agony in defense of stubbor . . . the status quo. Looks like the former may win. A strangely encouraging article, actually . . . . UPI picks up a Guardian story on the shifting of Europe's seasons to earlier springs and later falls. . . . And finally, the Senate Repub's go-to guy on the environment, Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, told a crowd this weekend that the Kyoto Protocol would shut down agriculture, military, and oil production in Oklahoma and that global warming is an issue exaggerated by "a liberal media who caters to Hollywood." His solution is to pull the US out of the UN.