purplecthulhu

As Katrina continues its steady approach towards land, one can't help the feeling that you're watching some horrid slow motion car accident involving thousands if not millions. Good luck and thoughts to all those involved or affrected.

But I also can't help thinking about the direct relationship between sea surface temperature and the power and frequency of hurricanes, and wondering if a major stateside hurricane disaster, hopefully restricted to property damage rather than lives lost, will act as a wake up call to get Bush and US politicians to take a more sensible attitude towards global warming.

Then I think about the closing chapter of Kim Stanley-Robinson's Forty Signs of Rain and realise that they'll carry on sitting with their fingers in their ears going 'lalalalala can't hear you' even when the waters are lapping at the doors of the Capital.