Saturday, April 14, 2007
PROTESTS WORK
As always, global warming protests continue to be a very effective means of countering global warming:
The weather forecast for Saturday’s global warming rallies in Grand Rapids and Holland calls for snow and cold rain and temperatures in the 40s—about 10 degrees below normal.
For some, this might make global warming a tough sell.
“I’ve thought of that,” said Lisa Locke, associate director of the West Michigan Environmental Action Council ...
Sure you have, sister. Don’t forget your global warming mittens and desertification scarf. Great headline, by the way:
Snow won’t dampen global-warming rallies
(Via Andrew Bolt)
UPDATE. Thomas L. Friedman explains why global warming is now a mainstream issue:
People are seeing things they’ve never seen before in their own front yards.
I went to Moscow in February, and my friends told me they just celebrated the first Moscow Christmas in their memory with no snow. I stopped in London on the way home, and I didn’t need an overcoat.
Well, that proves it. Still, I’d like to see Friedman repeat his no-overcoat experiment in Michigan.
UPDATE II. Or maybe Friedman could head for the hills:
A nationwide day of demonstrations to call attention to global warming has kicked off in New York’s Adirondack Mountains ... Today’s protests come as the Northeast braces for an unusually late snowstorm that could dump six inches or more of snow ...
UPDATE III. Quote of the week (via Noel Sheppard) from Kansas global warming opponent Laura Krinock:
“I’d hate to cancel a rally on global warming because of snow.”
UPDATE IV. All these global warming protests have spawned a monster Gor’easter:
