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oselleMy favorite blogger, John Cole at Balloon Juice wrote this today:
"Another day of crazy weather here. Fifty degrees in the morning, temperature dropped to about 10 degrees with whipping winds, then up a bit and snow with whipping winds. I’ve lived in this area my entire life, and I’ve never seen weather like we’ve had the past couple of years. It is changing right before our eyes, and there is a violent feel to the storms that wasn’t there even twenty years ago. But, you know, Al Gore is fat so climate change is a hoax."
I think he's right. What will really be interesting is how the world reacts when things keep on getting worse. I think I can safely predict that the other developed (and probably the developing) nations of the world may actually band together to belatedly find a real, scientific solution, while here in the Christian States of America, President Michele Bachmann will be encouraging us to burn witches to appease our angry God.
The best thing about climate change though, is that eventually, it will hit everyone. It may take a while, and a lot of people will die in an ugly way before then, but there will come a day when even the richest and most powerful among us won't have enough money or connections to hide from a global superstorm. Justice, at last, will be served.
"Another day of crazy weather here. Fifty degrees in the morning, temperature dropped to about 10 degrees with whipping winds, then up a bit and snow with whipping winds. I’ve lived in this area my entire life, and I’ve never seen weather like we’ve had the past couple of years. It is changing right before our eyes, and there is a violent feel to the storms that wasn’t there even twenty years ago. But, you know, Al Gore is fat so climate change is a hoax."
I think he's right. What will really be interesting is how the world reacts when things keep on getting worse. I think I can safely predict that the other developed (and probably the developing) nations of the world may actually band together to belatedly find a real, scientific solution, while here in the Christian States of America, President Michele Bachmann will be encouraging us to burn witches to appease our angry God.
The best thing about climate change though, is that eventually, it will hit everyone. It may take a while, and a lot of people will die in an ugly way before then, but there will come a day when even the richest and most powerful among us won't have enough money or connections to hide from a global superstorm. Justice, at last, will be served.
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Date: 2011-02-03 04:31 am (UTC)This seemed to be his way of saying that since that didn't quite pan out (when told that the past 10 years had been the hottest on record he claimed it was just anecdotal since dinosaurs just weren't taking temperatures) the way he imagined this was a good reason to just dismiss anything on the subject. Like since it vaguely reminded him of something in the 70s it could safely be dismissed as a fad. Also he didn't come from a monkey and science was just political.
Oh--it was Rep. Jack Kingston from Georgia. Yipes.
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Date: 2011-02-04 12:03 am (UTC)