dig your own hole
More climatic change cold-cocks (with a little alliteration added):
Weather forecasters predict that tonight and tomorrow temperatures will plunge to as low as -37C, the coldest in the capital since 1979. Moscow's record low is -42.1, set 66 years ago. One Russian news website ran the headline "The Day After Tomorrow - in Moscow", referring to the Hollywood film about global warming in which the United States is enveloped overnight in a new ice age.
Tales of burst pipes, electric-heater fires, icy road accidents and homeless people frozen solid will become commonplace as the week rumbles glacially on. Cold, known in Russia by the phlegmy word kholod, is a familiar but indefatigable enemy and 107 Muscovites have died from it since October.
Meanwhile, a bit closer to home...
I should note that I don't want to give the sense - to the three or four people who visit this blog - that I'm some kind of end-of-the-worlder, the James Lovelock's Revenge post aside; indeed, I found myself in the middle of a discussion over the 21st century Twin Dilemma of no-oil and global warming last night with a 60s back-to-the-lander and a prof who'd just peeped The End of Suburbia, and making absolutely no headway whatsoever with a relatively hopeful POV (speaking as a someone who drank at this fountain, peak oilers are espeically hard to get through, particularly newbies - a big fat spike of catastrophe-flavored info, and they're lost for months, if not forever).
In fact, I'd venture we've got a ways to go before things get all Thunderdome, but the meantime means crazy big spending, New Deal-style government programs, bold leadership, a brave public...
Fuck, nevermind.
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