Up, up and ahoy there

THREE decades after Blade Runner depicted cars flying around the streets of Los Angeles and James Bond plunged his amphibious Lotus Esprit into the Sardinian sea, prototypes for cars that can do both - and more - are being touted as vehicles of a future where climate change has altered the landscape.

With fears that global warming will cause sea levels to rise to heights that will inundate roads and rail lines, car designers are letting their imaginations soar and the resultant vehicles look like they belong on a film set.

Blog: Taking the Longer, Unsettled, View...

What caught my eye here was not the minor increment added by the scientists but that comment that global land masses are rising because they are still rebounding from the ice age. Think about that for a moment; a geo-climatic event nearly 20,000 years in the past is still having physical, measurable effects on our planet. Yet we have Al Gore and his chicken-little Warmbats screaming hysterically that we should be alarmed that mankind's activities of the past couple of decades may have drastic and irrevocable global effects on the future of the planet.

Bonn climate change talks break up without agreement - Monsters and Critics

Bonn, Germany - Fresh talks between the world's environment ministers have been called for Berlin next month, after two weeks of talks broke up in stalemate Friday in Bonn.

Thousands of officials attended the United Nations conference but failed to negotiate any progress on cutting carbon emissions.

Next month's event, on July 3-4, will be jointly chaired by Germany and South Africa, which is to host the next climate summit this year in Durban.
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Officials are already dubbing the planned Berlin meeting Petersburg II. The Durban summit is set to begin November 28.