Weather, Water, Energy 9-04-06

A couple of quick stories and an obit. Following on the heels of the president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science calling out Bushnev and others for the pending disaster of global warming (aka "climate change"), the BBC has a piece on the president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science doing basically the same. (I'm not sure that the old "calling for more public education" cure is really the answer when the world has more credentialed educated (and underlearned) people in it than any other time in history, though.) Time is running out, people. There's no excuse anymore for the ostriches or the rapturists who think people who screw God's creation so badly will be the first ones taken up into the heavens. . . . Meanwhile, Climate Progress shows us a conservative party is capable of doing regarding global warming. . . . Finally, Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter, took a stingray barb in the heart while filming a documentary on the Great Barrier Reef and died. I was never a big fan of his, the "CRIKEY" and all, but the man was one of the few who could get the message across to people who might not otherwise listen. He died getting ready to tell us about the Great Barrier Reef, after all. We couldn't afford to lose him.

Which is the best thing that can ever be said about a life.

UPDATE: Two more stories while you're waiting for the day to finish. Climate Progress added to the post above with a good catch on how the media are already screwing up reporting on a report that's still just in its draft stage, and that's not what they did wrong. . . . And Scientific American lets us know that even fruit flies can tell us that global warming is occurring.