Weather, Water, Energy 10-09-06

An Australian gov agency has issued a report warning that millions of folks in the Asia-Pacific region will get nailed with leaving homes, getting sick, and trying to survive cyclones and floods within this century. Oh, and national economies and security will take major hits, too. How do we avoid it? By reducing global greenhouse gases 30%-55% below 1990 levels. Uh . . . . They're baaa-aackkk!!!! Nuclear and oil shale, as we flounder for alternatives and forget why they went down the first time. But we're assured things will be better now. Honest. (But it seriously may not matter, given the new cost-benefit of where we're headed.) . . . Oil-producing nations are cluing in and fighting back with OPEC quotas. We're also informed that Bushnev is unhappy about the price of oil. I bet his oil buddies will be, too, when their next profit statements are published. . . . And an Alaskan research team has laid out a four-point strategy to help humans deal with oncoming global warming, based on a case study of the state's boreal forests. The four points are good, logical, possibly successful, and I would sign on right now . . . if more than 3 other people would. As it is, the strategy has the hope of a snowball in Hell. Or, anymore, an Alaskan boreal forest.