Irony, climate change, and Chris Christie aside, does the fact that the NFL has embraced composting mean that you'll handle food waste any differently at your own snack-centric Super Bowl Sunday hoedown?
In a bitter irony, it was changes to the area that attracted them here in the first place: "Our business plan was one which was based on other long term changes in the area, with the redevelopment of the First Street site, eg HOME, being the key factor in locating at Arch 64".
In one of nature's crueller ironies, the metabolic changes that take place in cells after about three hours without oxygen or glucose mean that restoring blood flow becomes damaging in itself.
And since cold is still overwhelmingly produced by burning fossil fuels, emission targets agreed at next month's international climate summit in Paris risk being blown away as governments and scientists struggle with a cruel climate-change irony: cooling makes the planet hotter.
In a striking irony, the climate change COP at which these corporate interests will be welcome will happen at exactly the same time as another UN COP, where the exclusion of corporate interests has been hailed as a fundamental ingredient to its success: COP7 of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, starting today in Delhi, India.
Mr. Raynor, 50, when asked about what first drew him to the labor movement, what caused him to give up a badly needed biochemistry scholarship at Cornell University to study labor relations, is the kind of guy who is able to say things like this without a trace of post-1960's irony: "Well, to change the world".
A cruel irony of climate change is that those who have contributed to it the least are also those who stand to be the hardest hit.
The irony is that change is the only sure thing -- which is why being able to shift your interpretation of it is going to be far more helpful than any effort to stop change from happening.
Some nations, including Canada, have already begun military posturing in the dance around carving up the Arctic: a situation based on the irrepressible irony of climate change and warming polar temperatures as a result of burning fossil fuels.
"One of the ironies of climate change is that we have more papers published on the costs of climate change in 2100 than we have published on the costs today.
