Monday, March 12, 2007
BOOK SEEMS URGENT
Seattle’s John Marshall shills for Tim Flannery:
What a difference a year makes!
Tim Flannery passed through Seattle last year when warnings in his book about climate change may still have seemed debatable. Now, in the wake of Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” and more dire global weather developments, his book seems more urgent, even prescient.
It does? Perhaps Marshall could list those “dire global weather developments” of the past year ... more polar bears? Fewer hurricanes? Hideous Canadian mildness? Meanwhile, Flannery’s book has found its proper home:
And yet another dire global weather development, via Ken S.:
Recent torrential rain and monsoons in northern Queensland have provided some rare relief for the Great Barrier Reef in Australia.
The poor conditions have significantly reduced ocean temperatures, making them the coolest for up to five years.