Today Professor Ceiling Cat (Emeritus) heads back to Chicago, and I’ll be landing at Midway at about 1 p.m. I’ve had a great time on this monthlong trip, but it will be good to be home. Posting will be light for a few days until I catch up, but bear with me. Meanwhile in Dobrzyn, the Furry Navel of the World is down by the Vistula, contemplating climate change. I suspect, though, that she’s worried about its effect on the supply of rodents. On the other hand, maybe she’s just distressed by the onset of cold weather.
Hili: Somebody must be to blame.
A: Blame for what?
Hili: For all these climate changes.
In Polish:
Hili: Ktoś musi być winien.
Ja: Winien czego?
Hili: Tym wszystkim zmianom klimatycznym.
We all are… particularly in the developed world. Reading “End Game: Tipping point for planet Earth?” by palaeoecologists Liz Hadly & Anthony Barnosky. Liz Hadly is working on some thing Hili would like – Pikas – to study climate change & how it changes their vertical distribution up mountains, & population dynamics
http://web.stanford.edu/group/hadlylab/
Hili and Pikas would be cute overload.
[Re “developed world” vs “undeveloped world”, Rosling’s main nit is that it was describing the world after WWII but already 1960 the global economy coalesced into “more or less developed”.]
Oops. Around 1960.
Hili looking very sharp…
That “over the shoulder” pose looks as though Hili has studied the matter. I wonder if she works in front of a mirror.
There’ve been reports of methane bubbling off the Pacific Northwest…which, if true, could mean we’re officially fucked.
Who to blame?
Most of us…but not Hili.
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That methane is in addition to the farm animals farting up clouds of the stuff at a furious pace. The contribution from pets like Hili is minor by comparison.