Sleep - or lack thereof - and climate change

Yikes - I've not done too well on the keeping the momentum-going-on-the-blog-front these days.!
Truth be told this week has been somewhat of a blur :o| I worked pretty intense hours over the weekend trying to get an updated draft of my UNEP report in -- which I did... albeit at 5 am on Monday. 3 hours of sleep later I had to be at school ... the last couple of days have been filled with running all sorts of errands that need to be taken care of and trying to get back up to speed on the PhD front. My second chapter is coming together slowly ... though will still require quite a substantial amount of work before it's ready for publication... which is ok, but on some days the light at the end of the tunnel seems incredibly dim :o| and I just want to hide under the covers and make it all go away.
Give me a few days and extra sleep and the light will come back shining bright and clear I know it ;o)

In the mean time here's an interesting story from this week's nature, written by Lovelock and Rapley, about how our planet could be helped to heal in the face of climate change by setting up a pipe system that would be "say, 100 to 200 metres long, 10 metres in diameter and with a one-way flap valve at the lower end for pumping by wave movement. [This nutrient rich water] would fertilize algae in the surface waters and encourage them to bloom. This would pump down carbon dioxide and produce dimethyl sulphide, the precursor of nuclei that form sunlight-reflecting clouds."

Let the tongues go wild!