{"id":347,"date":"2003-08-05T18:10:23","date_gmt":"2003-08-05T22:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2003\/08\/05\/little-chickadee\/"},"modified":"2003-08-05T18:10:23","modified_gmt":"2003-08-05T22:10:23","slug":"little-chickadee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2003\/08\/05\/little-chickadee\/","title":{"rendered":"Little chickadee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a301'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I just took my dog for a walk on yet another perfect Island day.  As I said a couple of days ago in &#8220;Timewarp buzz,&#8221; the weather here is so even and temperate that it seems almost to make life cartoonish: thrills and chills are suspended, then banished to another place &#8212; it&#8217;s all just breezes and flowers.  However, I&#8217;m not a complete ostrich, I read the news, and I see that our global climate is going crazy.  Even here. In <a href=\"http:\/\/asia.reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=scienceNews&amp;storyID=3224530\" target=\"new\">British Columbia&#8217;s forests<\/a> it is so dry that major out-of-control fires threatened population centres and caused evacuations.  Think of it: BC forests without rain.  Meanwhile, on the Eastern part of this continent, rain is out of control &#8212; I keep reading in various blogs about all the rain back East.  It has caused <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/stories\/2003\/08\/05\/floods_quebec030805\" target=\"new\">flash floods that wreak economic havoc<\/a>: in Quebec, recovery is expected to cost $7mil.  In Europe, heat waves are killing people, and <a href=\"http:\/\/reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&amp;storyID=3223642\" target=\"new\">forest fires rage out of control in Portugal<\/a>.  French and German nuclear reactors are shutting down, in part because their water is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/news\/archive\/2003\/08\/04\/international0227EDT0433.DTL\" target=\"new\">too hot to release into rivers<\/a>.  Spain warns that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/news\/archive\/2003\/08\/05\/international1604EDT0613.DTL\" target=\"new\">price of poultry will rise<\/a> because the heat increases the maturation time of the chicks.  (In those lovely factory hatcheries.  Imagine smouldering in a heat wave with your beak hacked off and no space to turn around in.)  Fires blaze in <a href=\"http:\/\/reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&amp;storyID=3223642\" target=\"new\">Brandenburg and forests are closed to the public<\/a>.  Tourists are cooking in Paris.  (Maybe the supermarkets should sell the tourists and let the hatchery chicks loose?)  We&#8217;re seeing desertification.  England is going to see its hottest temperatures ever, breaking a previous record set in 1990.  Finns are too hot.<\/p>\n<p>But naturally we need more study of the matter before we implement any pinko-weirdo-voodoo <a href=\"http:\/\/unfccc.int\/resource\/convkp.html\" target=\"new\">Kyoto Protocols<\/a>.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just took my dog for a walk on yet another perfect Island day. 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