More Thaw.

1-12-13 SHORT HILLS: The January thaw continues, all the snow is gone, the top layer of the soil has turned to mud making the yard treacherous for walking. The days have been dark, drizzly and dreary. Everything is wet, but there hasn’t been much rain accumulation. Tomorrow is supposed to be in the sixties.

2012 was the warmest year on record, beating out the previous record, 1998, I think, by a whole degree, which is a big increase.

There is a Op-Ed piece by Dan Fagin in today’s NYT about carcinogenic industrial wastes contaminating drinking water now happening in China, and echoing previous similar practices in Europe and then America. It’s titled, ‘A Cancer Cycle from Here to China’.