Yes, you are correct in picking the image on the right as the cover of Godley & Cremes Consequences. And if you know of a copy in Australia, at a reasonable price, the cfsmtb management would love to hear from you

Remember those geological ages you learnt at school? Earlier this year, a new geological age was quietly accepted, the Anthropocene, and here’s reasons why you should be cogniscent of that fact.

Tomgram: Mike Davis, Welcome to the Next Epoch

For those who didn’t happen to notice, perhaps because it wasn’t exactly front-page news in most of the country, NASA’s James Hansen, the man who first alerted Congress to the dangers of global warming 20 years ago, returned to testify before the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming this week. This time around, he was essentially offering a final warning on the subject. Unless the U.S. begins to act soon, he pointed out, “it will become impractical to constrain atmospheric carbon dioxide, the greenhouse gas produced in burning fossil fuels, to a level that prevents the climate system from passing tipping points that lead to disastrous climate changes that spiral dynamically out of humanity’s control.”

For the “elements of a ‘perfect storm,’ a global cataclysm” being assembled, he placed special blame on the “CEOs of fossil energy companies [who] know what they are doing and are aware of [the] long-term consequences of continued business as usual.” He added that they should, in his opinion, “be tried for high crimes against humanity and nature… I anticipate testifying against relevant CEOs in future public trials.” That’s a novel thought in our nation’s capital. Oh, and while he was at it, he probably should have thrown in George W., Dick C., and crew. What they haven’t done (and what they’ve blocked from being done) over these last eight years may turn out to be their greatest crime of all. Talk about smoking guns… or is it melting ice?

In cheerier news, may we introduce the Slow Bicycle Movement, which is just dandy for plodding, early middle-aged CGAF types such as yours truly. And in even cheerier news, the Dreams on Wheels Exhibition kicks off at Fred Square tomorrow. In future news I should get around to typing more than a few words about the long-planned YarraBUG radio show program on 3CR, which is growing little wings for it’s on-air debut, and the Vast Bicycle Consortium of Great Wonder that will be opening it’s doors up the road from Beer Can Hill. Heady days indeed.

Now in a valiant attempt to lift the mood somewhat from Mike Davis’ piece above, here’s a wicked Cassetteboy vs David Attenborough mashup that clearly demonstrates what munted creatures that some humans have de-evolved into. Warning: audio NSFW. Very, very NSFW