an inconvenient heat wave

I had meant to finally go see .Al Gore's movie last weekend but a transformer had overheated and blown out at the Fairfax Theater due to our recent heat wave, which just ended yesterday. It took PG&E two days to fix it, what with all the other power-outages they've been coping with. So last night I got another chance to go, and joined my friend Elizabeth, who turned to me during the credits and asked, "Why weren't people screaming in the theater?" It was a good question, and I really urge everyone to see this film and do everything the producers suggest at the end. I suspect there are many people at this point who think it's too late. (>James Lovelock may be the scientist who has said this most publicly); Greenland's ice caps are melting, and there's nothing we can do. Perhaps it is too late to avert some terrible consequences. I still hope to see people keeping faith in some civilized future and finally doing what we can to preserve it.
In the meantime, today's headlines read that Exxon's profit has soared by 36 percent since last year......