Friday, December 01, 2006
Summer in the city
Last night I walked from the Pierre Hotel at 61st and Fifth Avenue in New York City back to Penn Station, which is at 32nd and 7th. It was 70 degrees outside on the last day of November, and there were stylish people in short sleeves and bare midriffs doing their Christmas shopping in the most lavish stores in America. It made me remember a thought I have had before: if global climate change has warmed the winters in the American northeast without heating up the summers -- and that certainly appears to be the impact in the last twenty years -- has the effect been to co-opt the very people who would otherwise most support the relatively few American greens who want us to join Kyoto? If Manhattan's non-driving liberals aren't worried about climate change, what American will be?
Anyway, I cut through Rockefeller Center and snapped a few pictures. Everything was as it usually is this time of year, except the ice on the skating rink was very wet and nobody wore winter clothes. As always, click on the pictures to enlarge them.
It really is Decemberween.
1 Comments:
By 
GreenmanTim, at
Fri Dec 01, 12:32:00 PM:
Long term trends punctuated by short term fluctuations: as with your retirement portfolio, so with climate change.
