cold as a monkey's
one of my best friends is a guy named dave out of canada. aside from being a fan of the maple leafs, he's a pretty decent guy and we share many political viewpoints, the most significant is our contempt for dubya.
dave has been instrumental in getting his american-born, republican wife to rethink her opinion of dubya, never failing to point out the serious lack of critical thinking skills on the part of the white house. and we often share serious political discussions on congress and america's standing in the world since 9/11. however, aside from hockey, there is one major issue that dave and i disagree upon - global warming. or as he refers to it, climate change.
for some odd reason, with all the bullshit that he has been able to sift through, dave doesn't believe that global warming is a fact. forget the fact that over 160 countries, including canada, are part of the Kyoto Protocol calling for a reduction in the amount of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. ignore the following information:
- The number of Category 4 and 5 hurricanes has almost doubled in the last 30 years.
- Malaria has spread to higher altitudes in places like the Columbian Andes, 7,000 feet above sea level.
- The flow of ice from glaciers in Greenland has more than doubled over the past decade.
- At least 279 species of plants and animals are already responding to global warming, moving closer to the poles.
(Source: An Inconvenient Truth)
i get angry at my friend when he ignores the findings of hundreds of scientists and repeats the garbage spewed by the current administration that "the jury is still out on global warming". for someone so smart and politically savvy, he refuses to look at the data.
in the meantime, those of us are having the weirdest winter on record - and for folks in middle america, it's colder than a monkey's
posted by InternetJunkie @ 9:25 AM
9 Comments:
People always say to me "you're from Wisconsin, aren't you used to the cold?"
To which I reply:
"I can get used to getting kicked in the nuts, but it doesn't mean I like it!"
Many years back, Western New York had a severe cold snap, with temps in the single digits, for about a month. One local D.J. put in perspective for all the people complaining. He said,
"You know what they're saying in Minnesota about us right now?
Pussies."
Very clever ploy to get me to read yout Blog,
I must Say.
8^) *winks*
Hudson Bay to merge with Lake Superior?
Now I find that very ERIE!
That's it! I'm declaring this a "No Pun Zone"!
BTW, nice to see you too, Senor! ;-)
dewprocess said...
But seriously IJ, here's a guy who has 3 strikes against him - he likes the Leafs, marries a US Repug, and thinks like a Repug on global warming.
Is he waiting for Hudson Bay to merge with Lake Superior???
Actually, I think the only thing he's living for is the Leafs to win the Stanley Cup.
Loser.
I thought you might appreciate this:
http://tinyurl.com/r9s92
Has he seen this:
http://tinyurl.com/2qbvll
or this?
http://tinyurl.com/3yazzu
Global warming is "happening now, it's very obvious," said Mahlman, a former director of NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Lab who lives in Boulder, Colo. "When you look at the temperature of the Earth, it's pretty much a no-brainer."
That would explain why the chimpster called it "climate change" in his State of the Union address.
no brainer
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