Not to be overtly profound or obtuse, but rather consider the above an attempt to call attention to something that just makes good, plain, sense.   In an article published Thursday in the journal Science, a group of former senior federal officials call for the establishment of an independent Earth Systems Science Agency (ESSA) “to meet the unprecedented environmental and economic challenges facing the nation.”  ESSA, it would be called, proposes merging the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Basically, what they said was if we want to understand the earth and prevent disaster it makes sense to have the air people and the water people talking to the rock people.   Good job for speaking up!

Maybe we get so caught up in our bureaucracy sometimes we evade good reason like this. What if the solution to global warming is more simple than we think? What if the earth is like a big orange and all we have to do is stick a giant straw in it and let the water boil to give us electricity and get rid of carbon dioxide?

We’d never know if we were too busy forming agencies instead of talking to each other. (here’s a link to the AP story.)