It’s like the proverbial frog in a pot, which sits there while the water is slowly heating on the stove and doesn’t try to leap until it’s entirely too late.

I ran across another good one that I recently used in a post – catching a house fly:

…the most important thing to realise is that it’s much harder for your common housefly to detect slow movements than rapid ones. The most successful fly catchers are those that understand this critical element in the hunt, combining extreme patience with an instinctive awareness of just when to pounce.

What has this got to do with global warming? It’s simple – you’re the fly.

[…]Global warming is ponderous, but inexorable. Like the fly, we’re standing stiff – something is, perhaps, amiss – but we’re not moving.

I got it from Celsias.com.

As the incandescents in our house give up the ghost (no point in throwing them out while they’re still useful), we’ve been replacing all of the lights in our house with CFs. I’ve tried several brands of CFs, and there’s one brand that gives really nice natural light. (I don’t know the name, just the look of the packaging, so I’m no help there.) I’ve also found that CFs are not perfect replacements for incandescents. For example, the CFs that are made for multiple-wattage sockets just don’t work right.

But yeah, I’m always looking for ways to decrease my “carbon footprint” in ways that can work with my lifestyle. Any suggestions you or your readers have would be welcome.

JOhn.