John Scary made a guest appearance on this one... Hmm...if only Barton Fink wrote the screenplay for this one.

Canary in the Coal Mine

Yeah no shit my yogurt is like running on 3 months old and still looks pristine (not an ounce of mold there...nice and toxically sterile looking you know) :) Which is about the same for the toxic flour in the cupboard that no longer hatches flour bugs... Minding prolly nothing biologically living would touch it... Plastic flowers can really grow in upside down world :)

Man you need like monolake mold organisms to compliment here...?!

I generally am hearing a lot of wails these days, well...been running for years now.

Civilization or Vagabond

:)

Increased Tectonic Activity

hmmm, recalling this interesting theory regarding frequency of seismic activity as possibly associated with sea levels (and indirectly relating to climate change).  Here, increased rise of sea levels were theorized in part to create greater pressure differentials...these in turn leading potentially to changes in the rate of plate movements.

Anyways, as the theory continued something like increased seismic activity could lead  (or be at least contributing) to furthered volcanism and given high enough frequency leads to massive climate cooling.  Here, in part being a potential driver to past climate rebounds (with much warmer planets) where a given climate turns into an 'ice age' colder one.

Or if the theory is correct we could contribute potentially to not only climate change but a next potential ice age, alongside increased earthquake activity alongside increased volcanism of more catastrophic and severe order.

See Driving Force of Plate Motion and oceanic lithosphere

Sort of part of this ongoing debate on the drivers (at least there could be some agreement that plate density is a factorization and exactly the relationship between density and rate of motion isn't well understood at this point), nor likewise the relationship if its one that is more finely balanced (where small changes in, for instance, sea level changes could play more amplified roles in the nature of increasing rate of slippage, or if its generally a more mute relation).  

Gm Recall on faulty ignition switches for Cobalt vehicles

Cost for Replacing Ignition Switch on GM Recalled Vehicle, One Dollar

Sad read honestly.  Many of the victims described as young.  

Noah  followed by Melancholia double header...disaster theater all the rage.  :)

The Truth about the Golden Age of Today

   The Truth about the Golden Age of Today is that Confucius would be more then likely shot dead today if he managed to survive one of the 'purge' waves in America?  There is a cost to high levels of intolerance by the way isn't there?