The Final Countdown Du Jour

“Leading climate expert Jim Hansen” (no relation, as far as we can tell, to a deceased but global warmingly remembered Muppet expert) believes “Barack Obama has only four years to save the world.”

Of course he does. But we give Mr. Hanson bonus points for eschewing the leisurely and far overdone bourgeois pace of the ten year countdown–four isn’t a number that’s picked all that often from the proverbial hat for a doomsday countdown. But in any case, file this one way for election time in 2012 if–and we think the odds are somewhat reasonable here–Mr. Hanson is wrong.

In any case, no final countdown is complete without…