Bye-Bye Reefs?
Marine biologists have discovered
an enormous "die-off" of coral reefs in the Caribbean, the result of warmer waters caused by global warming.
These reefs grow incredibly slowly, and they were extremely old—"colonies that were here when Columbus came by have died in the past three or four months."
Meanwhile, President Bush still believes what
Michael Crichton tells him—that global warming is a big hoax cooked up by paranoid environmentalists.
It's my belief that this administration's greatest failure is not the war in Iraq, as terrible and tragic as that is. It's the long-term, probably irreversible damage it has done to the globe by ignoring global warming, encouraging the building of more coal-powered electric plants, giving tax breaks for SUVs, and promoting oil as the foundation of our energy policy.
But what does Dick Cheney care? He can still hunt quail on zoo-like ranches, and he won't live long enough to see a dying planet....
