A WELCOME DIVERSION — by Steve Nadis
After spending most of my days and nights thinking about string theory–and the mathematics underlying it–I recently had the opportunity to write two articles on global warming and, I have to say, global warming was a welcome diversion. Calling what might be the biggest human-induced natural disaster of all time a “welcome diversion” might be considered callous, so let me try to explain. The thing I like about global warming, at least from a journalistic perspective, is that it’s pretty easy to understand. The thing I find challenging about string theory is that it’s awfully hard to understand, even for the world’s top practitioners, let alone for a floundering scribe in way over his head. That’s why thinking about global warming for a couple of days came as a great relief; for the first time in a long while, I actually felt as if I knew what I was talking about. Of course I didn’t but during that brief hiatus, at least I thought I did.
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03:13:49
AHH, but life isn’t so simple, Snake.
There’s also- undeniably- Global Dimming, which is masking a lot of the Warming- for NOW.
Most scientists are in agreement on this 1, too.
(Recent show/PBS.)
Still feeling that “relief”?
-Marco Polo
No, I’m feeling the heat right now. And feeling a bit dim.
Global dimming is much easier to solve, however, since it all originates from the White House.
Did you mean global dimming or lobal dimmin. –SNAKE
Now, doncha be cutin’ dub’yah down too much on this’un, GM…
He’s got the most enviermentally friendly house of ALL of ‘em Washinton Political big-shots!
Raight down ther ‘n the Lone Star state[-of-mind]
[True!]
–M.P.