And in what seemed like a cruel joke, a new billboard erected in Culver City, Calif., to announce the Michael Graves home collection featured a
teakettle that, viewed from
on its side, inexplicably evoked Adolf Hitler, moustache and all, his arm in Nazi salute.
The warming in the deep Southern Ocean alone accounts for 34 terawatts of warming, roughly equivalent to the continuous operation of three 1,500 - watt electric
teakettles for each of the 7 billion people
on the planet.