Friday, December 18, 2009

Diminishing winds of change

I see that they have given up some coastline at Copenhagen. Two degrees increase is what we are now looking at in increased temperature. To the lay person that means look ouside and add two degrees. Hardly a difference, unless it is really really hot or cold.  The scientists tell us that it will raise the coastline, but they are wise enough now, having been tripped up by inconsistent predictions, to know that the number of factors involved make us unsure of predicting of exactly what will happen. Climategate, boorfully and obviously pre-planned, is nothing more than an acknowledgement of this fact, made to assuage the throbbing minds of people who don't want to deal with any change in their lives. These people are called conservatives. Conserving the traditional ways of things, dancing with what brought us here in our lovely Eden, so to speak. Sinners will taste death when Jesus returns in the clouds. Which is a metaphor for saying the old ways of doing things will fall by the wayside and not be remembered by anyone living in the future. Or, literally, that Jesus will smote the toads that gave him a hard time, especially the hypocrites. (You see a lot of the hypocrites today on television, using their wolf-in-the-hen-house, feigned ignorance and mock philosophy so that they are able feed the beast of their dated 1984 philosophy [my apologies if you just spilled your victory gin].) Either way, we will have to adapt to the winds of change. One answer will come with chemistry, and the dissemblers know this. It is a classic insiders secret, with the new capital being the controlled dissemination of information, and, especially, knowledge. Chemistry will be the answer to many creative problems of our time, and a good deal of commerce will result from the interplay of this chemistry and invented products. There will be plenty of clean electricity from fusion, pretty soon anyway. And a lovely Eden, if you can afford it. Maybe even some shared ideas and fun.