Will ongoing, repeated impacts on the oil infrastructure be the thing that finally convinces the Bush administration that Global Warming is real, and therfore lead to a real response?  There would be some sad irony in that.

 --J

Yeah.  It's definitely hitting those guys in a place they understand.  I somehow don't think they were too bothered about the Inuit seal hunt or the polar bears.
BTW - are you out of harm's way?
Me?  Yes, I'm an ocean away...  Atheistically praying quietly for those who aren't in a helpless, hopeless, hopeful way.

 --J

I think jaymax is a different J than the one you're thinking of. That J has told me that he's OK...probably...
It's a good thing that we're not going to hurt our economy reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
:-)

Humour aside, even the oil industry has to wake up soon and realise that their insurers are going to nail them to the wall for rig insurance in future. Maybe that will motivate their muppet in the White House to start taking the problem seriously...