And after Monday...

[quasigeostrophy]

After I take care of the errands at Purdue, I have until Monday the 14th when I start my RA job (classes don't start until the 21st). I've a list of what I can and/or should do in that time. Not all of it will get done, and I'm having trouble prioritizing because of the overriding need to have a break:

• (This one is already scheduled for Tuesday night) Go to The Melting Pot with Toni for a belated anniversary dinner.
  
• (This one is also a priority because it's part of the belated anniversary thing) See Pirates of the Caribbean II with Toni.
  
• Cut grass.
  
• Trim grass.
  
• Kill weeds.
  
• Get some new pants.
  
• Get a haircut.
  
• Try to ride my bike at least once.
  
• Dust & vacuum the house.
  
• See An Inconvenient Truth. I just know I'm going to get into arguments debates about this, so I'd better be informed.[1]

We're not going to GenCon Indy next weekend after all. We were just going to wander the dealer room and pick up some games and look at shiny, pointy things, but we looked at the admission prices and really don't want to spend $45 each just for that. Besides, moominmuppet isn't coming to town for it, either, so that meet-up opportunity isn't a motivator anymore.

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[1] - On a related note, I saw where The Weather Channel's climatologist, Dr. Heidi Cullen, in twc_blog yesterday phrased something very well: We live in a world that has a mix of natural climate cycles at play - like a symphony orchestra. Global warming has joined that orchestra. It may not be the conductor yet - but it's playing along with all the other instruments.

That expresses the impression I have given what I know so far about global warming. I will learn more, but probably never as much as she has, and it's good to see and educated climatologist not screaming that OMG it's only people (or worse, it's Americans the worst) who are heating up the planet!! Yes, we're doing our share, but what about highly-populated third-world countries who are still burning coal much less cleanly than we do. Last time I checked, Sao Paulo and Mexico City had the worst air quality on the planet. Beijing and Chongqing aren't far behind. Better stop before I get into full-blown rant mode. :-)

Comments

[lightning-rose.livejournal.com]

Recently I saw this episode of "Nova" which pretty much made the claim that pollution (especially particulates) has slowed global warming and if all coal fired plants had US style scrubbers the world's climate would be much warmer then it is now.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sun/about.html


And this has been getting a lot of press in the last few weeks:

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0731-05.htm

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

Interesting and ironic. It all just adds to how complex this issue really is. Thanks for the links.