Comments on: What Climate Change?

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 07 May 2008 20:48:51 +0000

That’s a meme that has been around for a while, at least a couple of years, as the result of one of the “blogger v ‘journalist'” wars. I think is started over credentials for the 2006 campaign.

I make no claim to having originated it and would guess it arose in comments at Atrios’ place. I use to hang out over there until someone used the e-mail addresses for spam.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Wed, 07 May 2008 18:29:56 +0000

OT, have you noticed that John Amato of Crooks and Liars has all but borrowed your blog slogan? Or has it always been that way, and I'm just now noticing?

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 07 May 2008 16:33:15 +0000

This isn’t a minor lake, Okeechobee is the large “hole” in the center of South Florida on all the maps. People have been pulling water out for agriculture and new developments, so it was already under stress.

It is also part of the navigable water system across the Peninsula, so low water levels also affect moving bulk merchandise on barges.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Wed, 07 May 2008 16:03:08 +0000

You gotta be grateful to those dykes. :twisted: About 30 years ago, a member of our musical group was always talking about the time the Cuyahoga River burned in 1969 during his school days at Oberlin Conservatory. It wasn't the first time the Cuyahoga burned. I have to say, though, the notion of a lake bottom on fire is even scarier.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:36:31 +0000

Last year it was the Okefenokee Swamp, and this year a lake because the rain patterns have changed.

Well, this is a La Niña year, Fallenmonk, so you make see a tropical storm. The Chattahoochee / Apalachicola river system could use the water.

By: Fallenmonk

Fallenmonk — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:32:35 +0000

I know I felt guilty all last summer wishing for a good tropical storm. I think it was Francisco or something like that dumped so much rain on us here in Georgia. It stalled and reversed a couple of times…except for the flooding and floating coffins it was great.

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Wed, 07 May 2008 06:15:28 +0000

things aren't good when the bottom of the lake is on fire.