Those Lazy, HAZY, Crazy Days of Summer Games
Right about now, somewhere in Beijing, there is a frustrated scientist – who is a closeted General Hospital watcher – who wishes he was allowed to follow in the footsteps of Mikkos Cassadine and build his own weather machine. This poor sap would be a dang hero today!
No, the weather machine was never built and today, just a little over a week before the Summer Olympic games are about to commence, the place is engulfed in a purple haze. All this talk about cloud seeding and reduction of industrial output still has yet to fulfill the promise of blue skies. You may be able to crack down on dissident protesters but Mother Nature has not taken kindly to fooling around with HER heavenly turf.
Gee, I wonder if the Chinese leaders thought that because of their get-out-of-polluting-free card, issued to them vis-a-vis the Kyoto Protocol, they could sustain an estimated 30% rise in greenhouse gas emissions over the past three years and not have a smog problem. If I were running that country, I’d be on the horn – pronto – and demand some carbon credit bucks to fix the weather.
Be it weather or people – as you tighten your grip, the more you wish to capture escapes.
Beijing Considers New Curbs As Pollution Threatens Games – WSJ.com.
