A few days ago, a carbon-emitting, climate-controlled 737 whisked me from one Washington to another, leaving the naturally air-conditioned paradise of a summer in Seattle for a plunge into Hades on the Potomac.
During a stroll around the capital, I sweated through two shirts, drained a liter of water, asked a guy who was hosing his dog to give me a spray. The humidity stung, like fevered hornets on the skin. As a lifelong West Coast weather wimp, I kept thinking: how does anyone live here in summer?
Around Capitol Hill, I could not find what I was looking for: agitprop from the number one global warming denier, Senator James Inhofe, Republican of Oklahoma. In February, remember, during a record snowstorm, Inhofe’s family constructed a primitive igloo
The snowy winter day was followed, all too quickly, by the hottest spring in Washington history. And then, early summer brought a spate of grim heat records around the globe. Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, much of Africa, Russia — all posted their hottest temperatures of all time, accompanied by forest fires, water shortages and crop failures.
So we have a snowy day when Sen Inhofe built an igloo followed by a huge list of disasters. 
As a citizen of a country that uses more energy than any other, I contribute to the carbon cycle with everything I do, from eating cereal that needs fossil fuel to get to market, to riding on the jet that delivered me from one coast to the other.
But I rely on the experts, those people who’ve devoted their lives to understanding changes in the earth’s temperature, to guide political leaders, and ultimately get me to join the rest of the planet in trying to keep us from slow-cooking ourselves to death.
I have to agree that it is a waste of carbon to fly across America to write twaddle like this!
Global warming scaremongering has had few positive benefits but this is certainly one of them. Whenever a journalist or columnist has a bad news day (or in some instance, a bad hair day) they are always able to generate a new headline out of nonsense like this to fill a blank corner of the rag. If this is a sample of the best they can do though, it's sad really.
ReplyDeleteTeejay Gold Coast, Queensland Australia
I wonder how much electricity Gillard uses to blow dry the hair each night, with top ups thru the day she must be the "Carbon Queen". add this to the existing title of "Hairess".
ReplyDeleteCentral Qld
[But I rely on the experts, those people who’ve "devoted their lives" to understanding changes in the earth’s temperature.]
ReplyDeleteThis idiot thinks climate scientists are cistercian monks while the rest of us just work.
Can journalists please stop using "devoted their lives" analogies for reinforcing their side of a story, it is lame and immediately shows the desperation of the journalist to lend credibility to a weak story.
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