for our enviro-friendly friends

driving your SUV down to the supermarket? pissed at all the people who ride bikes or drive hybrids as crouissant eating boinkheads?...well just read some little known facts from our friends at Environmental Defense:

• 2004 was the 4th warmest year on record. The 10 hottest years on record have all occurred since 1990!



• Record heat waves battered Europe in the summer of 2003 - the hottest on that continent in 500 years - and more than 26,000 people died from heat-related causes. Studies have found that global warming doubles the risk of events like the 2003 heat wave.



• A piece of the Larsen B Ice Shelf the size of Rhode Island broke off from Antarctica in 2002; rapidly warming temperatures on the Antarctic Peninsula were to blame.

So I say that we should all support:

Climate Stewardship Act (introduced by Senators McCain and Lieberman) to find out more about this intelligent bill go read some more at the Union for Concerned Scientists site or even the Pew Center's analysis or at Climate Network's site

oooh and on a completely different topic, Not In Our Name is taking out a full-page spread in the New York Times tomorrow...and heck Democrats led by Kerry are delaying confirming Dr. Rice and some are even voting against confirmation! will wonders never cease?