Al Gore had a good day earlier this week, when temperatures soared to a record 103 in Seattle, 106 in Portland, Oregon and 108 in Vancouver. But Al needs to think about another climate change threat.
Jonah Goldberg sums up the latest re the danger that an asteroid strikes Earth in the next century and causes a catastrophe that dwarfs global warming. JG notes that in 1908 a meteorite exploded a few miles above the tundra in Siberia; the force was equivalent to a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb. It flattened 80 million trees over an area twice the size of LA. Had it hit 5 hours later, it would have obliterated St. Petersburg. Some estimates see such a strike as a 1 in 10 proposition over the next century. An asteroid the size of the one that smashed into Jupiter recently, would obliterate life on Planet Earth.
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