Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Be Afraid -- of Global Cooling

I'm glad I have a closet full of coats. It seems I'll need them.

Snow cover over North America and much of Siberia, Mongolia and China is greater than at any time since 1966.

The U.S. National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) reported that many American cities and towns suffered record cold temperatures in January and early February. According to the NCDC, the average temperature in January "was -0.3 F cooler than the 1901-2000 (20th century) average."

And then, we have this story.

LONGYEARBYEN, Norway (AP) -- A "doomsday" seed vault built to protect millions of food crops from climate change, wars and natural disasters opened Tuesday deep within an Arctic mountain in the remote Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard. "With climate change and other forces threatening the diversity of life that sustains our planet, Norway is proud to be playing a central role in creating a facility capable of protecting what are not just seeds, but the fundamental building blocks of human civilization," Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said.

Yeah, how we going to get to those seeds when they're covered by ice three miles thick? Don't put all your seeds into one basket.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Aw, come on, at least the Norwegians have the right idea. It's certainly not a bad thing to do. I'll just assume that they have a plan for that three miles of ice. :)