The global warming thing makes me depressed and anxious.
So all I can do about it is make pretend jokes about how it's kind of nice to go outside and play Candyland on the front lawn in your jammies in February, as we did this morning.
(Thank god our next-door neighbors are cool people, who find this sort of thing amusing rather than shockingly inappropriate.)
Yes, my understanding is that the recent report was always going to be an incomplete picture because of the need for consensus across every member country. So even though it's a shocking report, it's nowhere near as shocking as it should have been.
And B, that's one of the perks of Southern California living, with or without global climate change. It's (finally) cold as balls on the East Coast.
I've mentioned before that I get a sort of punitive/vindictive/retributive streak from my mother, and it really comes out when I read Instapundit make quips about the upside of warming, or hear Rush Limbaugh talk about it can't be happeneing because there was just a bad snowstorm in Alaska, or read Mr Yankee say how some classes he took a few years ago have more epistemic weight than the considered views of working scientists. Like, as they sink beneath the waves for the last time, I want the expression of agony to reflect awareness that they were completely wrong about this and that the bad result is partly their fault. One or two feet is an awful lot of water.
I want the expression of agony to reflect awareness that they were completely wrong about this and that the bad result is partly their fault.
You're a dreamer. Cf. Iraq.
You may say that, but he's not the only one.
6: Oh, of course. I totally love it here.
I just wonder if, come the global change, people in Ohio will be less uptight about the whole indoor/outdoor living thing. It always bugged me in other parts of the country that going outside in your pj bottoms, or inviting people who stop by unexpectedly come in while you're still unshowered and puttering about in a robe is somehow inappropriate.
7: Is that vindictive, or just wanting people to fucking be honest?
Ok, probably both. In any case, me too.
This does really frighten me. I'm irrationally attached to NYC -- I'm a much stronger New Yorker than I am a patriotic American. And I don't know if we're making it unihabitable. The idea of losing coastal cities like New Orleans was lost horrifies me.
Huh, re: 10. Having spent all except the last two years of my life in warm climates in the west, I confess I had no idea this kind of thing was considered inappropriate in the midwest or elsewhere. California people wear jammies to the grocery store. You could be on to something here.
12: Other parts of the country are weird. I mean, honestly: if you're going to stop by someone's house, why would you get uncomfortable if they answer the door in their robe? I'm at home! You're lucky I wasn't naked.
The bathrobe thing sounds like it has to do with a more prudish sensibility. As in, *gasp*, you might be naked under there! It's just a guess, since like I said, I haven't really run across this kind of discomfort before. But if that's the case, I'd venture that you're less likely to find this sort of attitude in your new digs. SoCal folk are pretty comforable with the concept of implied/partial nudity.
12: Hell, some people wear nearly nothing to the grocery store. Jammies are a concession to modesty. [Jammies? You own *jammies*?]
You're lucky I wasn't naked.
You're not kidding, fatty.
Next time I see you, Ogged, I am totally going to lift my shirt and wiggle my fat mama belly at you.
They also roller skate nude, right?
kind of nice to go outside and play Candyland on the front lawn in your jammies
Man, I totally envisioned you setting up all these giant lollipops and gum drops and frolicking about with PK. What fun! I thought. And then I realized: oh, the boardgame. Also fun, but less whimsically so.
To unite this with the unnecessary concern of obesity thread, the makers of Candy Land seem to have replaced the memorable Plumpy with a new filler character called "Mama Ginger Tree". Why mess with the classics? Next they'll be changing it so that you can only play if you know how to count numbers.
We have the Dora version. They should retain plumpy, whoever that is, for body image reasons. If they care about obesity and health shit, it should stop being candyland altogether and make it fruit & veggieland, or something.
19: Too much work when I'm still in my jammies.
Um, instapundit's comment includes reasonable points? I guess, if by that you mean that he's not Iain Murray from The Corner. For someone with such a profound belief in the power of the free market, it's a little strange that he seems to think that a carbon tax wouldn't do much to spur the development of alternative energy sources. Or maybe in that part of the post he was just focusing on making a gratuitous swipe at Europe, it's hard to tell.
I guess I was so set on him being a denialist that it came as something of a relief.
You know what I like about living in the Twin Cities? We deal with temperature extremes that would shut other cities the fuck down. Like today for instance: one of the coldest days of the year, -6 was the high, with windchills down to -30 or whatever, and did the bike punks cancel their bike rally? Did they fuck! The only concession I saw to the cold was some ski goggles. There were even fools walking around without they damn hats on!
And the summers are pretty awful too sometimes.
So bring on your global warming, says I! We're like 1500' above sea level here, suckers! When southern Missouri is the new coastline of the Carribean, we'll be high and dry. See who's flyover land then, shit.
24: My boyfriend was one of those fools w/out his damn hat on today, but he griped about it.
We're like 1500' above sea level here, suckers!
Lower than the lowest point in New Mexico. Just sayin'.
Minneapolitan, I've been back in MN for 18 months, and this is the first really cold day.
It's not important. While there will be less land, the Bird Flu will have cut the population in half and the chaos during and after will kill more. There will still be plenty of nice beach for those left.
Relatedly, I've just started World War z: An Oral History of the zombie Wars, and I think it's going to be pretty good.