Much cleaner to hack apart a frozen carcass, much cleaner.

The green tech industry seems to be a lot of throwing things against the wall to see what will stick. That’s probably as it should be, but makes for a hell of job keeping up on and sorting it out.

I know that your personal life was pretty hectic when i posted my review, Brian, but i think that you’d really like Eating the Sun. Morton incorporates high science with a complete (if only sketched) history of the planet’s climate. Like The World Without Us, it is a perspective shifting read.

I live where i do partly because the environment is both cleaner than average and because the entire political spectrum up here really cares about it. The Limbaugh listeners are even all about composting toilets, solar panels and windmills.

I should post more on cool energy and “green” tech, since there’s so much of it out there. Lots of it is great, but lots of it is crap too.

My sister has spent some time up in Barrow, Alaska, and she described what the local Inuit do with caribou they shoot in the winter – the lob the carcass up onto the roof where it freezes solid. And they bring out a small electric saw to cut meat off the carcass whenever they’re hungry.

Dawn, far too many people believe that humanity is too small to affect something as huge as the ocean (or the climate in general). I just finished reading “The World Without Us” and it provides a great deal of perspective in that regard.

The hypoxia in our local rivers and bays is terrible. Out here the Hood Canal struggles mightily. I find it heartbreaking to see the degradation of the Chesapeake Bay. The Bay was my treasured childhood playground. My brother still lives out there. He’s given up fishing and crabbing – except for his personal use. Why are we so blind to our effect on water. Try and live without it…

This was a great carboholic, Brian, and i commented on it the day that it came out…but my comment turned into a giant, threadfucking bitch dissertation, so i deleted it. (revolving around the indoor livers complaining about the weather and then using said complaints to form a bad argument re climate change)

I particularly like the new possibility for refrigerating as refrigerators suck in many ways. If i were building, i’d have a little room added for energy free winter refrigeration (in this climate). I always loved the way Russians use their unheated balconies as winter refrigerators…oh the beer you can backstock!

It is really unfortunate that Global Warming was the phrase that stuck rather than Climate Change or even Extreme Climate, because it implies that everything gets hotter rather than climate becoming more erratic, which is closer to the truth.