> You know, we really need to stop calling what are now a-few-times-a-year > catastrophic storms "once in a generation" catastrophic storms.
So I was at an after-movie dinner with a group of self-proclaimed "skeptics" last weekend, and one of them said (to somebody else at the table, apropos "alleged" anthropogenic global climate change), "Catastrophe? What exactly would constitute this 'catastrophe'?". And I butted in on this conversation and said "If it's **your** house that gets blown away by the next hurricane, then it's a 'catastrophe'." And he said "But there's **no connection**!". And I said "I don't believe it." And that was the end of our exchange.
Oh, and more good news: the Coca-Cola company is funding research that will show unequivocally that guzzling fizzy brown high-fructose corn syrup does **not** make people fat, if they just get off their fat asses and go to the gym. Ain't science (funded by corporate capitalism) grand?
> You know, we really need to stop calling what are now a-few-times-a-year
ReplyDelete> catastrophic storms "once in a generation" catastrophic storms.
So I was at an after-movie dinner with a group of self-proclaimed "skeptics"
last weekend, and one of them said (to somebody else at the table,
apropos "alleged" anthropogenic global climate change), "Catastrophe?
What exactly would constitute this 'catastrophe'?". And I butted in
on this conversation and said "If it's **your** house that gets blown
away by the next hurricane, then it's a 'catastrophe'." And he said
"But there's **no connection**!". And I said "I don't believe it."
And that was the end of our exchange.
Oh, and more good news: the Coca-Cola company is funding research
that will show unequivocally that guzzling fizzy brown high-fructose
corn syrup does **not** make people fat, if they just get off
their fat asses and go to the gym. Ain't science (funded by
corporate capitalism) grand?