Climate Crisis, and Our Dead Koi
27 June 2006 9:52 pm by Taylor Marsh
UPDATE: Pollution in overdrive
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It’s been a tough day ’round our house. Our 4,000 gallon cascading pond was
poisoned and we lost six or so of our beautiful koi and one of our poliwags.
It may not seem important to you, but it was traumatic to me. You don’t have to live near a stream to realize the balance
required in nature. We’ve created an amazing Eden we call paradise, which was
disturbed in an alarming way today. We have come down to bug spray as the culprit. We have so many birds, including peacocks, that we have quite a bug problem unless we stay on it. We’ve been careful, but… We’ve been flushing the pond for hours and hours. We are now bathing our wounds
in good wine and fine chocolate.
Seeing Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient
Truth” was powerful, as was speaking
to him. It drove home so many things. Seriously, see the movie. But Gore
isn’t the only Democrat who gets it. John Kerry understands the environment
too, especially when it comes to energy
independence. The Democrats are righteous on the
environment, as I learned meeting
Robert Redford in D.C.
So many people are trying to target Gore by massaging the science to match
their message. Good luck. Science doesn’t lie. Gore got it right.
Now, excuse me, because I need some more chocolate.
The AP contacted more than 100 top climate researchers by e-mail and phone
for their opinion. Among those contacted were vocal skeptics of climate change
theory. Most scientists had not seen the movie, which is in limited release,
or read the book.But those who have seen it had the same general impression: Gore conveyed
the science correctly; the world is getting hotter and it is a manmade catastrophe-in-the-making
caused by the burning of fossil fuels.“Excellent,” said William Schlesinger, dean of the Nicholas School
of Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke University. “He got all the
important material and got it right.”Robert Corell, chairman of the worldwide Arctic Climate Impact Assessment
group of scientists, read the book and saw Gore give the slideshow presentation
that is woven throughout the documentary.“I sat there and I’m amazed at how thorough and accurate,” Corell
said. “After the presentation I said, `Al, I’m absolutely blown away.
There’s a lot of details you could get wrong.’ … I could find no error.”Gore, in an interview with the AP, said he wasn’t surprised “because
I took a lot of care to try to make sure the science was right.”
