13 Terrifying Climate Facts on Friday the 13th!!

So I look at my inbox this morning and what do I see? Those crazy environmentalists trying to scare the @#%$ out of me with their "13 Scary Facts for Your Friday the 13th." I'd completely forgotten it was Friday the 13th until some poindexter armed with things like "information" and "scientific data" and "logic" started trying to spook me with "facts" like:

* 34% = Percentage that 2008's Arctic seasonal sea ice melt outpaced normal levels.

* 1.5 million = Number of acres of forests in Colorado destroyed by the pine beetle, which is better able to survive warmer winters and is wrecking havoc in America's western forests.

* 70% = Increase in the rate of Greenland's ice melt over the last five years.

Don't they know that gay marriage is MUCH scarier than the world melting? I mean THAT's how you're supposed to scare people. Sheeeeesh!

Luckily, tomorrow is Valentine's Day. So we can all console ourselves about our impending doom with sex and chocolate. Or, for those with too much free time, sex IN chocolate. If you plan on indulging in some chocolate on V-Day, may I recommend Theo Chocolates - a fantastic chocolatier we came across in Seattle on our YERT travels and "the only Organic, Fair Trade, Bean-To-Bar Chocolate Factory in the US." They even give tours of the factory - Willie Wonka eat your heart out!

I'm keeping my sex recommendations to myself, but to see the aphrodisiac effects of chocolate check out the end of this YERTpod.




Of course, if you're single and broken-hearted you'll likely want to console yourself ABOUT Valentine's Day with the fact that it looks like the world is ending anyway. Consider those 13 scary facts a sort of schadenfreude pick-me-up.

cheers,
-Ben