Friday, October 27, 2006

Weather, Water, Energy 10-27-06

Quick. Which of these three headlines today from Terra World don't belong?

He's not Bushnev, but God, the Aussies have such a tool for a leader. Sorry, "leader." . . . Speaking of fools, the British Environmental Secretary says that his nation will start burying radioactive waste. Only . . . it will take 40 years and has failed before in the face of "public willingness." "Like it or not, it is there and it has to be dealt with," he says. Well, the first part's right. Let us know how that second part turns out, okay? . . . Uh, Mr. Environmental Secretary, out there touting ingenuity. You probably shouldn't read this story on how decommissioning your existing nuke plants is up to $122 b., and that's with plans that experts admit will likely undergo revision. Upward. . . . Wetlands. You remember. Those things we've been busy paving over for developments and highways. Turns out some cities have figured out how to use them to clean up their sewage. Now if Chicago could just do the same thing with its mayor. . . . Climate Progress lauds AZ for taking its future seriously on global warming, but I'm getting a little tired of praise for people doing the things they should have been doing from the start. Better late than never, I guess. . . . And, a couple of hours after eating, allow yourself to read this alert that Sen. Inhofe is using a 30-year-old Newsweek article to prove that global warming isn't happening. Guess who beats both Bushnev and AU's PM as a tool?