Get ready for the coming planetary crisis

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It's 10:30pm in Seattle, 82 degrees down from 100. It was 106 in Portland today. ONE HUNDRED AND FUCKING SIX. This is the Northwest, not the desert. Getting ready for a whole new era of planetary awareness, people? Get ready for the coming crisis, seriously. It's just starting.

And just three days ago the moon astronauts were on the air, prosletyzing for colonizing Mars.

When things are really fucked up here, we will look back out our laxness with great regret. I guarantee it. In most of our lifetimes.

Channeling my inner monkey.

It was a rough day.

We have to wake up and do something.
 
At least this thread makes me feel better about not having moved to Portland after finishing school, something we came close to doing.

Here in the mid-South we have experienced two extremes in the past three summers. The first was a Phoenix-like summer with record high temperatures between 105-110 degrees and very little rain. This summer we've had patches of Buffalo-like summer. Being able to sleep with the windows open in July is well outside the range of normal here.
 
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originally posted by SFJoe:
originally posted by Kevin Roberts:
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Why the prejudice against Utah?
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Maybe mountains are considered honorary coast? That still doesn't explain the exclusion of OK, but I tend to exclude it on general principles anyway. Any state that considers ORU an asset is to be shunned.

Mark Lipton
 
originally posted by MLipton:
originally posted by SFJoe:
originally posted by Kevin Roberts:
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Why the prejudice against Utah?
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Maybe mountains are considered honorary coast? That still doesn't explain the exclusion of OK, but I tend to exclude it on general principles anyway. Any state that considers ORU an asset is to be shunned.

Mark Lipton
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Everybody knows that OK is just north Texas.

Speaking as the spouse of someone whose spouse had multiple job interviews at state universities in OK, I'm very happy that they didn't work out. It could have been fine, but I'm just as happy to not be moving to OK. Now whether that's better than the uncertainties and vagaries of the academic job market, we'll see next year.

cheers,

Kevin
 
originally posted by Brad L i l j e q u i s t:


It was a rough day.

We have to wake up and do something.
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There is the well-worn observation that a frog placed in a cup of hot water will jump out, whereas one placed in cold water that is then heated on a stove will stay put until dead (disclaimer: no animals were harmed in this poast). I fear that complacency will remain until matters are well out of hand. We're already 0.5C warmer on average than we were in 1970:
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How much warmer will we need to get before people drop the "if" from statements about global warming? I'm now convinced that until it becomes economically necessary to modify our behavior, little will be done in the US to combat global warming.

Cheers from the cool, rainy Midwest,
Mark Lipton
 
originally posted by Bwood:
At least this thread makes me feel better about not having moved to Portland after finishing school, something we came close to doing.
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You went to finishing school? Would you say that this is what got you accepted into Wellesley?

I was in Portland earlier this week and was surprised to see signs on the freeway telling us to drive less because of a smog alert. I thought everything in Portland was green and hippy-dippy groovy and that the smog demon only existed in Southern California. Maybe all of Portland's refugees from the shores of North Hollywood and Touluca Lake brought the bad air with them to remind them of their roots?

-Eden (lacquering in finish of any sort)
 
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