Category: Stories in Stone Blog

Perhaps the Republicans might now be willing to admit that they should believe in climate change. Here’s my simple argument for why they should finally recognize the need to do something about it. Our warming planet helped Obama win the election. Hurricane Sandy, which many have pointed out was bigger and more nasty because of our new climate paradigm, showed Obama’s presidential qualities and the importance of good government.

Yes, his numbers were on the upswing prior to Sandy but Obama’s strong showing during and after the storm certainly aided him and helped make people realize the short sightedness of Romney’s statement about FEMA. So I conclude that the election was the silver lining on climate change. We can only hope that everyone now bands together and tries to address this critical issue.

 

I was quite honored to be interviewed recently by the book editor of the Seattle Times, Mary Ann Gwinn. Today is the day that the interview appeared in the news. My favorite question was the one about cairns of tragedy. It let me focus on the cairn that honors the death site of Robert Falcon Scott, Edward Wilson, and Henry Bowers, who along with Lawrence Oates and Edgar Evans died on their doomed goal of reaching the South Pole. The other famous cairn of tragedy is the one found on King William Island and which contained the only written evidence ever found from the Franklin Expedition of 1845.