tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post7528328385258178113..comments2023-11-22T01:14:54.298-08:00Comments on amor mundi: Welcome to the GreenhouseDale Carricohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-87980423577218935812015-08-16T10:57:04.607-07:002015-08-16T10:57:04.607-07:00> You know, we really need to stop calling what...> You know, we really need to stop calling what are now a-few-times-a-year<br />> catastrophic storms "once in a generation" catastrophic storms.<br /><br />So I was at an after-movie dinner with a group of self-proclaimed "skeptics"<br />last weekend, and one of them said (to somebody else at the table,<br />apropos "alleged" anthropogenic global climate change), "Catastrophe? <br />What exactly would constitute this 'catastrophe'?". And I butted in<br />on this conversation and said "If it's **your** house that gets blown<br />away by the next hurricane, then it's a 'catastrophe'." And he said<br />"But there's **no connection**!". And I said "I don't believe it."<br />And that was the end of our exchange.<br /><br />Oh, and more good news: the Coca-Cola company is funding research<br />that will show unequivocally that guzzling fizzy brown high-fructose<br />corn syrup does **not** make people fat, if they just get off<br />their fat asses and go to the gym. Ain't science (funded by<br />corporate capitalism) grand?jimfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04975754342950063440noreply@blogger.com