Shocking News From an Upcoming U.N. Report on Global Warming

According to the report, “Climate change is already having major impacts on the natural world.”

You can read the BBC article here.

I am glad about this “growing certainty” and don’t mean to be too cynical. It is just that lots of environmentalists and scientists were already “certain” a while back and if anyone would have paid any attention to them, we wouldn’t be in the huge pickle we are.  The evidence of global warming and its impacts (and potential impacts) have been clear for a long time. I just find it a bit irritating that it is like some sort of great revelation that the world is getting hotter and that this is actually impacting people’s lives.  Gosh. Who would have thought such a thing?  But, in spite of my sarcasm, I do recognize that it is a huge challenge to convince people and governments and businesses to do things differently until people are actually suffering from it.  It is just sort of too bad that things work that way.  Lets hope that people get psyched up enough about global warming and such to do a lot more than cover stories, documentaries, and reports………

Math Use Declines in Many Areas of the Country

I saw this confusing yet scary headline on Yahoo! News.  I was envisioning parts of the country where they no longer use addition or subtraction.  No more counting money, or miles, or hours.  Then I looked again and realized that it was meth use that had declined, not math.  Still, I got a kick out of envisioning what the decline of math use in some parts of the country might look like.

On another note, I turned my master’s thesis in today.  Whoo-hoo!  That means you can look forward to more posts on the sexual purity movement, drawn from the finalized thesis.  I know. You are the edge of your seats.

And I’m home from Nicaragua, but missing my friends there (but not the dust).  My hives (yes, I had five days of hives while there) are gone.  Great memories, even with the hives, remain.