A Campaign to Hate

Wherever I go — from glittering dinner party to glittering dinner party — the famous and powerful people I meet (for such is my life) tell me how lucky I am to be a journalist in this the greatest of all presidential contests. I tell them, for I am wont to please, that this campaign is indeed great when, as history will record, it is not. I have come to loathe the campaign.

Read the rest of the article here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/02/AR2008060202590_pf.html

I certainly understand where Richard is coming from here.  This whole campaign has been painful to watch, and it’s hard not to watch with the intensity of media focus it seems to be getting compared to previous elections.  And I can’t figure out who the lesser evil will be.  At this point, I am convinced that it won’t matter who gets elected.  The only difference will be in how the media spins it.

Half of Papua New Guinea Forests Could Vanish

The news just keeps getting better and better:

Half of Papua New Guinea’s forests will be lost or damaged in just over a decade, speeding up local climate change, unless logging is dramatically reduced, a study released Monday found.

The University of Papua New Guinea report, which used satellite images to show the loss in forest cover between 1972 and 2002, found that at current rates, 53 percent of forest was at risk of being destroyed by 2021.

Read the full article here: http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/06/02/new-guinea-forest.html

It still amazes me, after all of the data that comes from the scientific community, that people can even begin to question that Global Warming is a serious threat.  Or that they question whether or not humans have accelerated it!  It’s pretty obvious to me (and most of the credible scientific community) that humans have accelerated Global Warming through any number of activities…  like deforestation, for example.