I Promise to Shut Up Soon About Climate Change

I keep coming back to this topic, but one of the reasons I tend to delve deeper into the subject is because my wife, I'm pretty sure, is literally scared to death of the consequences of climate change in our lifetime. Meaning, hey, our house will be flooded due to the rise of ocean levels, and if we had any sense, we'd move inland. Her fears are well founded, judging by the MSM coverage of so called global warming. I remain skeptical of how things will play out.

I refer you to a thoughtful essay by Freeman Dyson, which tends to mirror my feelings on the subject, i.e. there are so many gaps in our knowledge it doesn't make sense to act without gathering more data. I really like his take on the role of heretics, humanists, and naturalists. Check it out HERE.

Racing to the South Pole!

Emboldened by the Russian’s bid to gain sole access to vast quantities of unexploited oil deposits by planting their flag underneath the ice of the North Pole, confident New Zealander scientists and military officials have begun a voyage to Antarctica, in a quest to plant the Kiwi flag on the seabed beneath the South Pole.

“The North Pole is for sissies and Cossacks,” sneered Dr. Clive Ennerton, chief scientist in charge of the project. “Those Russian tog-wearers can naff off!”

When it was pointed out that Antarctica is in fact a continent, and not a vast floating ice floe, and hence has no sea floor on which to plant a flag, Dr. Ennerton became momentarily nonplussed. “What?”

Masters of Science Fiction

Premiering tonight on ABC is the four part anthology series Masters of Science Fiction. Unlike legitimate journalists, who are given preview DVDs of series such as this to review, blogging schlubs like me must resort to using a mental divining rod to separate the wheat from the chaff, and, as demonstrated in the previous phrase, are forced to mix metaphors, further proving that blogdom is full of hacks. But I digress.

Judging by the source material, I have high hopes for the series (see some synopses HERE at the ABC site). Dramatizations of stories by John Kessel, Howard Fast, Robert Heinlein, and Harlan Ellison are in store. Great pedigrees all! Frankly, I most look forward to Ellison’s teleplay, and can’t wait to see it. Tune in.