Looking Back

I started this blog on November 27, 2005.
Almost 4 years ago. It is hard to believe it has been that long. There have been so many things that have changed. I graduated. I started working for Dr. House. Karen graduated. Obama and the Democrats took over. And now my dad has cancer.

I realized while I was looking back that I used to write much more personal posts. I wrote about what we were doing and about what I was thinking. I think a lot of that has been shifted to Facebook, but maybe I will start doing that here again.

I still don't know if anyone actually reads this blog, but sometimes it just feels good to type things out.

Well, I suppose I should go to bed.

All the Things Caused by Global Warming:

I came across this list a while back, but haven't had time to put it up. These are actual news headlines of stories in which global warming was mentioned as the cause or a possible cause:

Acne,

Afghan poppies destroyed,

Africa devastated,

Africa hit hardest,

Africa in conflict,

African aid threatened,

African summer frost,

aggressive weeds,

air pressure changes,

airport malaria,

Alaska reshaped and moves,

allergies increase,

allergy season longer,

Alps melting,

Amazon a desert,

American dream end,

amphibians breeding earlier

amphibians dying,

amphibians not breeding earlier

anaphylactic reactions to bee stings,

ancient forests dramatically changed,

animals head for the hills,

animals shrink,

Antarctic grass flourishes,

Antarctic ice grows,

Antarctic ice shrinks,

Antarctic sea life at risk,

anxiety,

anxiety,

Arctic bogs melt,

Arctic ice free,

Arctic ice melt faster,

Arctic in bloom,

Arctic lakes disappear,

Arctic not warming,

Arctic tundra to burn,

Arctic warming

asthma,

Atlantic less salty,

Atlantic more salty,

atmospheric circulation modified,

atmospheric defiance,

attack of the killer jellyfish,

avalanches increased,

avalanches reduced,

Baghdad snow,

Bahrain under water,

bananas destroyed,

bananas grow,

barbarians,

beer shortage,

beetle infestation,

better beer,

billion dollar research projects,

billion homeless,

billions face risk,

billions of deaths,

bird distributions change,

bird loss accelerating,

bird strikes,

birds confused,

birds decline (Wales),

birds driven north,

birds return early,

Black Hawk down,

blackbirds stop singing,

blackbirds threatened,

blizzards,

blue mussels return,

boredom,

brain eating amoebae,

bridge collapse (Minneapolis),

Britain turned into Siberia,

British gardens change,

brothels struggle,

butterflies move north,

camel deaths,

cancer deaths in England,

cannibalism,

cardiac arrest,

cataracts,

cave paintings threatened,

challenges and opportunities,

childhood insomnia,

Cholera,

circumcision in decline,

cirrus disappearance,

civil unrest,

cloud increase,

cloud stripping,

coast beauty spots lost,

cockroach migration,

cod go south,

coffee threatened,

cold spells,

conferences,

conflict with Russia,

conflict,

consumers foot the bill,

contaminated blood,

coral bleaching,

coral fish suffer,

coral reefs dying,

coral reefs grow,

coral reefs shrink ,

coral reefs twilight,

cost of trillions,

cougar attacks,

crabgrass menace,

cradle of civilisation threatened,

creatures move uphill,

cremation to end,

crime increase,

crocodile sex,

crops devastated,

crumbling roads,

curriculum change,

cyclones (Australia),

damages equivalent to $200 billion,

danger to kid's health,

Darfur,

death rate increase (US),

Dengue hemorrhagic fever,

depression,

dermatitis,

desert advance,

desert retreat,

desert life threatened,

destruction of the environment,

diarrhoea,

disappearance of coastal cities,

disasters,

diseases move north,

Dolomites collapse,

dozen deadly diseases,

drought,

drowning people,

ducks and geese decline,

dust bowl in the corn belt,

earlier pollen season,

early marriages,

early spring,

Earth biodiversity crisis,

Earth dying,

Earth light dimming,

Earth lopsided,

Earth melting,

Earth morbid fever,

Earth past point of no return,

Earth slowing down,

Earth spinning out of control,

Earth spins faster,

Earth to explode,

earth upside down,

Earth wobbling,

earthquakes redux,

earthquakes,

El Niño intensification,

encephalitis,

end of the world as we know it,

English villages lost,

equality threatened,

erosion,

Europe simultaneously baking and freezing,

eutrophication,

evolution accelerating,

expansion of university climate groups,

experts muzzled,

extinctions (bats, pandas, pigmy possums, koalas, turtles, orang-utan, elephants, tigers, gorillas, whales, frogs, penguins,)

extreme changes to California,

fading fall foliage,

fainting,

famine,

farm output boost,

farmers benefit,

farmers go under,

fashion disaster,

fever,

fir cone bonanza,

fish bigger,

fish catches drop,

fish catches rise,

fish deaf,

fish downsize,

fish get lost,

fish stocks at risk,

fish stocks decline,

five million illnesses,

flesh eating disease,

flood of migrants,

flood patterns change,

flood preparation for crisis,

floods of beaches and cities,

floods,

Florida economic decline,

flowers in peril,

food poisoning,

food prices rise,

food prices soar,

food security threat (SA),

football team migration,

footpath erosion,

forest decline,

forest expansion,

frog with extra heads,

frost damage increased,

frostbite,

frosts,

fungi fruitful,

fungi invasion,

Garden of Eden wilts,

gene pools slashed,

genetic diversity decline,

giant oysters invade,

giant pythons invade,

giant squid migrate,

gingerbread houses collapse,

glacial earthquakes,

glacial growth,

glacial retreat,

glacier grows (California),

glacier wrapped,

global cooling,

global dimming,

glowing clouds,

god melts,

golf course to drown,

golf Masters wrecked,

Gore omnipresence,

grandstanding,

grasslands wetter,

Great Barrier Reef 95% dead,

Great Lakes drop,

greening of the North,

Grey whales lose weight,

Gulf Stream failure,

habitat loss,

haggis threatened,

Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome,

harmful algae,

harvest increase,

harvest shrinkage,

hay fever epidemic,

hazardous waste sites breached,

health affected,

health of children harmed,

health risks,

heart attacks and strokes (Australia),

heart disease,

heat waves,

hibernation affected,

hibernation ends too late,

hibernation ends too soon,

high court debates,

HIV epidemic,

homeless 50 million,

hornets,

human development faces unprecedented reversal,

human fertility reduced,

human health improvement,

human health risk,

human race oblivion,

hurricane reduction,

hurricanes fewer,

hurricanes,

hydropower problems,

hyperthermia deaths,

ice age,

ice sheet growth,

ice sheet shrinkage,

ice shelf collapse,

icebergs,

illness and death,

inclement weather,

India drowning,

industry threatened,

infectious diseases,

inflation in China,

infrastructure failure (Canada),

insect explosion,

insurance premium rises,

Inuit displacement,

Inuit poisoned,

Inuit suing,

invasion of cats,

invasion of crabgrass,

invasion of herons,

invasion of jellyfish,

invasion of midges,

island disappears,

islands sinking,

itchier poison ivy,

jellyfish explosion,

jet stream drifts north,

jets fall from sky,

Kew Gardens taxed,

kidney stones,

killer cornflakes,

killing us,

kitten boom,

koalas under threat,

krill decline,

lake and stream productivity decline,

lake empties,

lake shrinking and growing,

landslides of ice at 140 mph,

landslides,

lawsuit successful,

lawsuits increase,

lawyers' income increased (surprise surprise!),

lawyers want more,

legionnaires' surge,

lightning related insurance claims,

little response in the atmosphere,

lives saved,

Loch Ness monster dead,

locust plagues suppressed,

lush growth in rain forests,

Lyme disease,

Malaria,

malnutrition,

mammoth dung melt,

mango harvest fails,

Maple production advanced,

Maple syrup shortage,

marine dead zone,

marine diseases,

marine food chain decimated,

Meaching (end of the world),

Mediterranean rises,

megacryometeors,

Melanoma decline,

Melanoma,

melting permafrost,

mental illness (Alberta),

methane burps,

methane emissions from plants,

methane runaway,

microbes to decompose soil carbon more rapidly,

Middle Kingdom convulses,

migration difficult (birds),

migration,

migratory birds huge losses,

minorities hit,

monkeys on the move,

Mont Blanc grows,

monuments imperiled,

moose dying,

more bad air days,

more research needed,

mortality increased,

mortality lower,

mountain (Everest) shrinking,

mountaineers fears,

mountains break up,

mountains green and flowering,

mountains melting,

mountains taller,

mudslides,

Myanmar cyclone,

narwhals at risk,

National security implications,

native wildlife overwhelmed,

natural disasters quadruple,

new islands,

next ice age,

NFL threatened,

Nile delta damaged,

no effect in India,

noctilucent clouds,

Northwest Passage opened,

nuclear plants bloom,

oaks dying,

oaks move north,

oblivion,

ocean acidification faster,

ocean acidification,

ocean deserts expand,

ocean waves speed up,

oceans noisier,

opera house to be destroyed,

outdoor hockey threatened,

oyster diseases,

ozone loss,

ozone repair slowed,

ozone rise,

Pacific dead zone,

penguin chicks frozen,

personal carbon rationing,

pest outbreaks,

pests increase,

phenology shifts,

plankton blooms,

plankton destabilised,

plankton loss,

plant viruses,

plants lose protein,

plants march north,

plants move uphill,

polar bears aggressive,

polar bears cannibalistic,

polar bears deaf,

polar bears drowning,

polar bears starve,

polar tours scrapped,

popcorn rise,

porpoise astray,

profits collapse,

psychiatric illness,

psychosocial disturbances,

puffin decline,

radars taken out,

railroad tracks deformed,

rainfall increase,

rainfall reduction,

rape,

refugees,

reindeer endangered,

reindeer larger,

release of ancient frozen viruses,

resorts disappear,

rice threatened,

rice yields crash,

riches,

rift on Capitol Hill,

rioting and nuclear war,

river flow impacted,

rivers dry up,

rivers raised,

roads wear out,

robins rampant,

rockfalls,

rocky peaks crack apart,

roof of the world a desert,

rooftop bars,

Ross river disease,

ruins ruined,

Russia under pressure,

salinity increase,

salinity reduction,

salmon stronger,

Salmonella,

satellites accelerate,

school closures,

sea level rise faster,

sea level rise,

seals mating more,

severe thunderstorms,

sewer bills rise,

sex change,

sexual promiscuity,

shark attacks,

sharks booming,

sharks moving north,

sheep shrink,

shop closures,

short-nosed dogs endangered,

shrimp sex problems,

shrinking brains,

shrinking ponds,

shrinking shrine,

ski resorts threatened,

skin cancer,

slow death,

smaller brains,

smog,

snowfall heavy,

snowfall increase,

snowfall reduction,

soaring food prices,

societal collapse,

soil change,

songbirds change eating habits,

sour grapes,

space problem,

spectacular orchids,

spiders invade Scotland,

squid aggressive giants,

squid population explosion,

squid tamed,

squirrels reproduce earlier,

stingray invasion,

storms wetter,

stormwater drains stressed,

street crime to increase,

subsidence,

suicide,

swordfish in the Baltic,

Tabasco tragedy,

taxes,

tectonic plate movement,

teenage drinking,

terrorism,

threat to peace,

ticks move northward (Sweden),

tides rise,

tigers eat people,

tomatoes rot,

tornado outbreak,

tourism increase,

trade barriers,

trade winds weakened,

traffic jams,

transportation threatened,

tree beetle attacks,

tree foliage increase (UK),

tree growth increased,

tree growth slowed,

trees could return to Antarctic,

trees in trouble,

trees less colourful,

trees lush,

trees more colourful,

tropics expansion,

tropopause raised,

truffle shortage,

truffles down,

tsunamis,

turtles crash,

turtles lay earlier,

UFO sightings,

UK coastal impact,

UK Katrina,

uprooted - 6 million,

Vampire moths,

Venice flooded,

volcanic eruptions,

walrus displaced,

walrus pups orphaned,

walrus stampede,

war between US and Canada,

war,

wars over water,

wars sparked,

wars threaten billions,

wasps,

water bills double,

water scarcity (20% of increase),

water stress,

water supply unreliability,

weather out of its mind,

weather patterns awry,

weeds,

West Nile fever,

Western aid cancelled out,

whales lose weight,

whales move north,

whales wiped out,

wheat yields crushed in Australia,

white Christmas dream ends.

wildfires,

wind reduced,

wind shift,

wine - England too hot,

wine - harm to Australian industry,

wine - more English,

wine - no more French ,

wine -German boon,

wine industry damage (California),

wine industry disaster (US),

wine passé (Napa),

wine stronger,

winter in Britain dead,

winters in Britain colder,

witchcraft executions,

wolves eat less,

wolves eat more moose,

workers laid off,

World at war,

World bankruptcy,

World in crisis,

World in flames,

World War 4,

Yellow fever,

Thank you to Number Watch for this list.