As you've all probably heard, ABC "News" has been having a call-in for people to send in their personal experiences with the fiendish specter of global warming.
Now, I know there are a lot of people over on the right side of the divide who have done nothing but mock this effort as yet another example of how silly and out of touch the major media are about scientific matters, but I have to say, I really think there's something really bad wrong going on, and no one's willing to talk about it.
Okay, yesterday was the summer solstice, right? The first day of summer? But here's the odd thing--even though it's warm HERE, down in Australia where folks like Kitchen Hand and Tim Blair live, it's actually so cold that they're calling it WINTER!
This is just too crazy and mixed up NOT to be the result of man's inhumanity to our beloved Planet Earth! We've ruined EVERYthing now, and it's so insane that one part of our Big Blue Marble is locked into an icy death grip, while just on the other side, it's blazing hot! We have reached a day of reckoning, my friends! If only we'd signed Kyoto, NONE of this crazy mixed up summer-on-one-side/winter-on-the-other would be happening!
And we had the nerve to mock Al Gore. I weep.
(OH, and for ABC, who wanted to know about "unusual animals that have arrived in your community," I did want to mention that the other day I went outside and was confronted by a large black and gray cat that I have NEVER SEEN BEFORE! The temperature was a blazing 85 degrees, and then all of a sudden, here's this strange cat. Coincidence? I think not.)
Posted by Terry Oglesby at June 22, 2006 01:59 PMYou put me in a funny mood, so I blogged on this one too. I think it's also instructive that half the page is their stupid legal agreement saying you have no rights on your own bodies, much less anything you send them.
Posted by: Skinnydan at June 22, 2006 02:48 PMIt's not only hot here in the Southern United States, but because of the heat, I am forced to run the air conditioner and that costs me money. Oh, how I suffer at the hands of global warming and the evil influence of Haliburton!
Posted by: Jordana at June 22, 2006 03:30 PMI am in a quandary--I don't know whether to castigate you for living in a suburban single-family house with air conditioning, or praise your womynly bravery for battling the patriarchal hegemony of Halliburton.
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at June 22, 2006 03:50 PMI guess I'll have to leave of reading Possumblog cause you have taken to using multisylabbic (big made up word) words and probably even spelling them correctly. Can't we all just agree to use short words and save electrons for future generations?
Posted by: Larry Anderson at June 22, 2006 04:25 PMNO! Like Mr. Gore, I must continue the ostentatious verbal display, which I find to be equivalent to his flying all over the country and riding around in limos while discussing how bad it is to waste valuable resources!
All the rest of you use short words, and that will leave more for me to use to proselytize the unfaithful.
By the way, I also intend to eat a bunch of meat to protest eating meat, and become fabulously wealthy to protest against people who have too much money.
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at June 22, 2006 04:43 PM