I read something online recently about how “climate change” and “global warming” just don’t cut it as sufficiently frightening metaphors for the rising sea levels, melting ice caps and glacierrs, unusually hotweather in summer, unusually mild weather in winter, alternating deluges and droughts depending on which part of the country you live in, and unusuallydevastating seasonal storms.
As in, “hello, Katrina and Rita.” It made me wonder what better handle there might be for all of this weather-related irregularities.

So I started thinking about all the different eras we humans have named in our journey from the past to the future via the present:

Ice Age
Stone Age

Bronze Age

Iron Age

Classical Age

Dark Ages/Middle Ages

Renaissance Age

Age of Reason/ Age of Enlightenment

Age of Steam

Industrial Age

Modern AgeModern AgeThis Modern World

Atomic Age

Space Age

Post-Modern Age

Information Age

Age of Lewinsky

Age of Unreason / Age of Deliberate Government Suppression / Heads In Sand Age/ Anti-Intellectual Scientists Age
UPDATE: Corporate Shill Age
Melt Age 1Melt Age 2Melt Age 3Melt Age 4

That’s it- it’s my husband David’s idea. We’re about to enter or have already entered the Melt Age. I was thinking of calling it “The Roast Age” or “The Age Of Sweltering” but “Melt Age” seems best to me. After all, that’s what’s happening to polar ice caps and glaciers left over from the Ice Age, right?

And then after that, there’s “The Glub Glub Age” and “The Gill Age” and possibly “The Post-Nuclear Age” and “The Neo-Neolithic Age”