My Photo Gallery

This is a (composite) picture of our pond taken in summer 2004. It gives me a feeling of well-being and connection to Nature to sit and think about the balance of life-forces present in the pond as a reflection of the larger balance of life-forces on our planet. I hope the balance on earth continues: as we pump more and more green house gases into the atmosphere, the possibility of catastrophic climate changes increases. Acid rain, mercury, toxic chemicals and other pollutants are already known to have a sever deleterious effect on life.

Climate and weather is one of the most complex systems in nature; science is only beginning to understand causes and effects at work in it. That means that the ideas, hypotheses, and theories about man's effect on the earth's climate are in flux. It does not mean that America (or the world) can afford to have a president that is incompetent in dealing with scientific matters, as we now have with George W Bush as president.

George W Bush's ignorance (or is it just complicity?) in his failure to enforce the Clean Air, Clean Water and other anti-pollution efforts is criminal.