Open Thread: Torpid Iguana Edition
Readers, I’m confused. Help me out here:
First, Global Warming was refuted by the fact that it snowed in Michigan. In January.
But yesterday (Monday, 2008/01/07) it was 65 degrees Fahrenheit here on the East Side of Pittsburgh. According to my trusty digital thermometer, it’s 68.8 degrees Fahrenheit on my front porch right now at 14:47 in the afternoon. So Global Warming must be for real: after all, I now have anecdotal data to match that of my Michigan counterparts.
But wait a second, readers! It’s been so cold in the Florida Keys that iguanas are falling out of trees! And if it gets cold anywhere, that means Global Warming is a liberal lie!
Oh, well. Consider this an open thread.
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January 8th, 2008 @ 20:16
You read my mind.
January 9th, 2008 @ 10:40
The record highs we are beating this week – were set in the 1960’s – when the same type of environmental whackos were predicting an ice age was right around the corner in 2000 if we didn’t stop polluting.
Environmental extremists are communists and nothing more. Scare tactics to stop capitalism is all they are. Communist literature is passed out at every ‘environmental’ seminar.
Sometimes cold in Florida – sometimes warm in Michigan – is normal. Earth temperature up – Earth temperature down – is normal.
To think mankind not only knows what causes it – but can do anything about it – is sheer lunacy. But as I have said (and know), liberalism is a mental illness.
January 9th, 2008 @ 14:04
Right, H.D. — it’s sheer lunacy to think we could conserve energy, manage our forests better, reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, etc. That’s some mental illness.
Or, wait a second… is it a Trojan horse containing Communism? I can’t keep this one straight, either. One minute it’s lunacy, the next it’s a Commie plot.
January 9th, 2008 @ 14:59
What evidence do you have to support that assertion, besides gut reaction? Personally, I think the idea that men can accurately interpret the variations in light wavelength that a planet’s orbit causes to a distant star is sheer lunacy.
January 9th, 2008 @ 16:19
HD> But as I have said (and know), liberalism is a mental illness.