...can yield garish figures made of driftwood, but sometimes it brings out the doe-eyed tree hugger in me. Apologies while I put the weighty issues aside for a moment: I really like this tile that looks like a dry riverbed.
From an article by Andrew Revkin in today's New York Times:
"This is a mega-ethical challenge," said Jerry D. Mahlman, a climatologist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., who has studied global warming for more than three decades. "In space, its the size of a planet, and in time, it has scales far broader than what we go-go Homo sapiens are accustomed to dealing with."
Hell, yeah. The article otherwise (ironically, given it is on "moderate" scientists in the climate debate) imposes false contrasts between scientists who are quite alarmed and fear catastrophe and those who... want to do something pragmatic? (??) I don't quite see the point, but at least it's another article on climate change!