Global Warming Sanity Check
June 18th, 2007 at 1:58 pm by CrankySo your kid comes home from elementary school teary-eyed because, according to the teacher, the last Polar Bear drowned last Thursday.
What do you do?
Check out Climate Police! Think of it as a Drudge for Climate Denialists.
June 18th, 2007 at 2:45 pm
You remind the little idiot that polar bears can SWIM!!
June 18th, 2007 at 6:43 pm
My kid said the other day that the thing that scares her the most is global warming. She had a nightmare that the world would end soon. She’s homeschooled, but she picked it up from all the Discovery Channel stuff we watch. It’s hard to convince them once they’re afraid.
June 18th, 2007 at 8:28 pm
But Al Gore said…
June 19th, 2007 at 10:35 am
They have been scaring the beegeezus out of kids for several generations now. And it’s all been a crock.
As a kid, I was worried about going outside to sing in the rain. I was told that “acid rain” was going to eat the skin off my body. That’s rain singing I’ll never get back!
I recall my brother lecturing my parents about the effects of the hole in the ozone and how it would cook us all in just a few short years.
But, there is one redeeming value to all of this. As we grew up, and realized they were full of shit, we grew ever more skeptical that they even knew what they were talking about.
I think that’s why many in our generations don’t buy all the “man-made global warming” bs.
The fooled us once, they ain’t gonna do it again.
Hopefully the kids will learn a valuable lesson from this fear mongering.
June 19th, 2007 at 10:46 am
dsmith, Michele, EXACTLY
Maybe “the sky is falling anxiety” is a product of youth or maybe it is something that people exploit to build a movement.
Either way, being grown up seems to kick a dose of common sense into us.
At the end of the day, I don’t even think Al Gore believes it is the end of the world.
June 19th, 2007 at 5:17 pm
The Sky is falling…
link
You skeptic bastards are all going to die.
The only human survivors will live underground with their Emperor/God Alus Goreacle the First.
His crack technical geniuses will invent a time machine and send skin covered cyborgs back to 1999. They will solve the mystery of the dangling chads. This timeline must be set right. For the children. And the little forest creatures. And the majestic polar bears.
June 19th, 2007 at 9:19 pm
On the subject…
I know Cranky’s always up for a little “Miller Time”…
Of course I probably shouldn’t link this…Cranky’s already given me my courtesy link for the week…