September 26, 2006
Administration Blocks Report Connecting Hurricanes and Global Warming
Via Crooked Timber, in Yahoo! News:
For those with access to Nature, the piece can be found here.The Bush administration has blocked release of a report that suggests global warming is contributing to the frequency and strength of hurricanes, the journal Nature reported Tuesday.
The possibility that warming conditions may cause storms to become stronger has generated debate among climate and weather experts, particularly in the wake of the Hurricane Katrina disaster.
In the new case, Nature said weather experts at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration part of the Commerce Department in February set up a seven-member panel to prepare a consensus report on the views of agency scientists about global warming and hurricanes.
Posted by Robin Varghese at 10:40 PM | Permalink
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and then there is Tex Avery (goosing mother goose), for which see http://www.imagesjournal.com/issue06/features/texavery.htm
He brings the "big bad wolves" and "red riding hoods" out of the sanctity of the linear narrative and into the service of the gag, creating in the process a unique world of self-conscious "cartoon actors" who know they're in a cartoon and freely comment on their status as fictional creations, undercutting the story at every turn.
upending Bruno Bettleheim's interpretations of fairy tales and giving a modernist commentary, irony-laden perspective.
Posted by: fred lapides | Sep 27, 2006 10:37:08 AM
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