Boviosity!

We already have a former VP and presidential candidate aroused by the film, expecting that like minded people in the media would be any more sensible is unrealistic.

Of course the NYT is also claiming Global Cooling due to jet contrails.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/16/weekinreview/16boxa.html?pagewanted=print&position=

Geez, I'm so confused, am I gonna need a sweater or a fan...

Equating this to other recent cinema, I find it equivalent to if those with an anti-cloning agenda used 'Godsend' to argue that humans should not be cloned because they will all end up evil and mentally disturbed.

Well, I'm all for exploring these issues, and I seem to recall seeing stories about gene therapy with a "Godsend" hook. But as silly and obvious as is deciding to run a story based on interest in a Hollywood movie (and it happens all the time), this is worse: an assertion by someone who knows not of what he speaks that this-here weather stuff is gettin' out of hand.

It was Channel 11's Wes Sarginson, BTW. Could just be old-and-out-of-touch syndrome.

It's the sharks. Remember the sharks? Summer of 2001. Gary Condit and sharks. Sex and violence. The shark street was aroused, I seem to remember. Same thing now, just substitute spring storms for sharks.

In a month or two, it'll be vacuum cleaners or marigolds or sweet little old ladies. The media script has two lines:

1. Threat! Threat! Threat!

2. Bushisevil! Bushisevil! Bushisevil!

To make the first of these work requires some creativity - you have to throw in a new noun every now and then.

The same syndrome surrounded the re-release of The Exorcist. We were deluged with exorcism-related news, and the Catholic Church was treated with make-believe respect, until the movie's ad campaign had run its course.

The weather person at one of the stations in my small home town has been using the words 'Global Warming' for sometime now.

Anytime it's close to a record, you hear him say and 'Global Warming' will cause it to get close to a record high/low (seems global warming causes cold too).

He also likes to claim how much the weather has changed in these parts over the years. Oddly he has only lived here a little over 3 years.

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He also likes to claim how much the weather has changed in these parts over the years. Oddly he has only lived here a little over 3 years.

Particularly considering that we've only been keeping good scientific records of climate for, oh, about 60 years now.

In the grand scheme of things that's not even a blink of an eye in the age of the Earth.

In New Zealand so-called global warming is being caused by the farts of cows. Now I am all for less farting especially by the members of the US Congress, and most especially by senators Ted Kennedy (D-Chivas Regal) and Robert KKK Byrd (D-Senilityville). And I believe even a tiny less bit of this putrid air, routinely portrayed as wisdom borne of experience by feeble-mindeded Democrats, exiting from these two gasbags alone would improve the enviroment in America tremendously. But no matter, even that bit of grace wouldn't make a dent on so-called global warming in the end, because the Europeans are not only proud of their especially fragrant and nauseatingly disgusting farts, but have turned farting, as well as stinky cheese, into the EU national pastime. And they and their national sport are sure as hell gonna tear up the atmosphere for every living thing, cows included.

BTW If I am not mistaken that huge load of fart material, Michael Moore, is now in the France. I believe this proves my point.