LUKEWARM: Says Gieg of Gore, "What he's doing is no less than the scare tactics used by people like Karl Rove." / Photo by Chris Crisman
IT's THE LAST day of November, which means winter begins in three weeks. Yet the temperature on the Penn campus is nearing 70 degrees, and it's muggy. Walking to the offices of the Department of Earth and Environmental Science from a remote parking lot makes me sweaty. Global Warming.
Driving here this morning, I heard a report on WHYY from National Public Radio that the International Ski Federation was canceling races because there's no snow in the Alps. Got to be Global Warming!
Yesterday, down the road in Washington, where the temperature was 16 degrees above normal, the Supreme Court heard arguments in a case in which 13 state governments are suing the Environmental Protection Agency to force the government to begin controlling carbon dioxide as a pollutant under the decades-old Clean Air Act. If that doesn't happen, the states claim, the rising sea levels caused by greenhouse gases will rob them of coastline. GLOBAL WARMING!!
And this is just one ordinary day in the new normal. Even if daily weather has nothing to do with global warming, and even if the scientific debate about it is not quite done, its cultural moment has certainly begun. Insurance companies have stopped writing policies for coastline residents. A government report out of England warns that global warming may be so economically deleterious that it will make the upheaval of the Great Depression and World War II seem benign.
Michael Crichton has already dramatized the issue in a best-selling novel. Leonardo DiCaprio is working on a documentary on the subject. A recent Time magazine cover featured a polar bear in danger of drowning and the warning: “Be Worried. Be Very Worried.”
You are reporting the word of so called experts, Fact is they are "Educated Idiots". Where were they to warn of the Ice Age or Dinosaur extinction? You are dumber than they are,reporting this BS! Your parents will be SSSOOO proud of you, Stupid! Although, they are likely to be your malfunction. There is no such thing as GLOBAL WARMING. Just a bunch of scientest and a bitter Presidential Candidates failure. All looking for notariaty in the most unlikely places.
Any one with half a brain could figure out that the earth goes through both cooling and warming cycles. (READ THE MANUEL/BIBLE) These are the same assholes who said we would blow the fuck up in the 80's because of a hole in the OZONE. Once the HOLE fixed itself, now the is nowhere for the "GREENHOUSE GASES" to go.
Go Figure they just need a cause to keep a job!!!!!! Screw all of you believers.
