Frankenstorm

As I finished making preparations for the upcoming storm (I'm in NJ), I stumbled across an overview over on Treehugger about possible connections between climate change and Hurricane Sandy. Here's what Bill McKibben has to say:

"Our relationship to the world around us is shifting as fast as that world is shifting. “Frankenstorm” is the right name for Sandy, and indeed for many other storms and droughts and heat waves now. They’re stitched together from some spooky combination of the natural and the unnatural. Some state will doubtless bear the brunt of this particular monster, but it also will do its damage to everyone’s state of mind."

He makes an excellent point about how we must begin to alter the way we think about weather and storms, and the interconnectedness of our daily actions and their global consequences.

If you are somewhere in the Northeast, I hope you weather this storm - stay safe and be prepared!

Say what?

Did any of you catch this disturbing bit of news, that a "rogue scientist" dumped tons of iron dust into the ocean just to see what would happen? Appalling. Perhaps nature will soon throw a nice storm our way "just to see what happens". I honestly don't understand how humans have lasted this long.

 

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