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![]() Just Above Sunset
August 7, 2005 - Global Warming
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300 scouts collapse in the heat waiting for President The quadrennial gathering
of 32,000 boy scouts now under way at an army base in Virginia has been struck by a series of misfortunes that have cost four
lives and made hundreds ill. Note this from James Wolcott: It struck me that hundreds
of Scouts collapsing in the heat awaiting a no-show president is a symbolic portent. I fully expect incidents of mass heatstroke
to mount as we enter deeper and deeper into the baked Alaska of global warming. Years of ranting and heckling by Rush Limbaugh,
Michael Savage, and other ignorati that global warming is a myth propagated by environmental wacko and economic no-growthers
have lobotomized the lobes of millions of Americans and their greedy representatives, inducing a state of denial that no amount
of news footage seems able to shatter. Note to Wolcott: Succeeding on his third
try to visit them, President Bush comforted thousands of Boy Scouts on Sunday at a national jamboree marred by the electrocutions
of four leaders and stifling heat that sickened 300. Third time is charm, and
one suspect his political advisors knew this was looking real bad. So he showed up and said the appropriate things. The guy
gets enough grief for seeming contemptuous of others and an arrogant, uncaring frat-boy prankster. The Caribbean got warmer
earlier this year, the kind of warm that provides the energy to turn minor storms into hurricanes, and this item quotes James McCarthy, a professor of biological oceanography at Harvard University, saying that as the world warms, we expect
more and more intense tropical hurricanes and cyclones. Of course. That's logical. Of course it doesn't help
that HBO in it current rotation is running the recent disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow (2004) five or six times a week. In the movie, curiously, global warming causes serious melting of the ice caps, and then
all the fresh water in the ocean shifts the North Atlantic Current's salinity so it now runs cold, and then the climate patterns
go all screwy - massive storms (Los Angeles is wiped out by tornados, one of which wipes out the Hollywood sign itself - and
the Columbia Records building down the street!) - all followed by three new gigantic storms in the now much colder northern
hemisphere, resulting in a sudden new ice age with most of the United States and all of Europe just sheets of ice, and the
US government forced into exile in - get this! - Mexico. In the movie no one in the government would heed the warnings of
the scientist-hero, especially the arrogant Vice President, who looked a lot like Dick Cheney, and sounded like him too. An oil man. Yeah, yeah. From Energy Bulletin: Well, Wolcott is a tad
upset that we're all in such denial, and that such denial led is to this situation where there really is no way to fix any
of this. The oil supply is finite - and will peter out. And even if we stop burning fossil fuels and do all the green things,
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This issue updated and published on...
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