Thursday, October 12, 2006

Denial

Gazing out at the light dusting of snow sprinkled over the suburban landscape and blowing on my hands to limber up my creeky, frigid fingers, I read this, linked from Drudge. An excerpt:

A U.S. based environmental magazine... is now advocating Nuremberg-style war crimes trials for skeptics of human caused catastrophic global warming.

Grist Magazine’s staff writer David Roberts called for the Nuremberg-style trials for the “bastards” who were members of what he termed the global warming “denial industry.”

Roberts wrote in the online publication on September 19, 2006, "When we've finally gotten serious about global warming, when the impacts are really hitting us and we're in a full worldwide scramble to minimize the damage, we should have war crimes trials for these bastards -- some sort of climate Nuremberg.” (http://gristmill.grist.org/print/2006/9/19/11408/1106?show_comments=no )

It's all making sense now... The Google crowd lures "Global Warming Deniers" like me into Blogger Beta, which cuts off our Blogline links to the greater blogging community. Now isolated, no one will notice when the Sierra Club swoops in and whisks us away to northern California for a treetop (endangered) kangaroo (rat) court proceeding, where we're convicted of "crimes against Goddess Gaia" and sentenced to twenty years of a carbon-neutral existence.

Better get these Global Warming updates in while I can still use a computer.

Global Warming Update - Twin Cities
10/11/06 Observed high temp - 48
10/11/05 Observed high temp - 61
10/11 Record high temp - 84 - 1930

2 comments:

Jill said...

I'm glad to have a name for you now. I was using a slightly different one before.

P.S. I'll try to have the children remember you in their nightly prayers to Gaia from now on.

Eric said...

Mel Gibson's father denied the Holocaust and look what happened to Mel. I fear for poor Ben and Henry if they ever get caught in some drunken rant thirty years from now.