Posthuman Blues

Congressman Vows to Fight Global Warming Bill

House Majority Whip Roy Blunt (R-Mo) has said that he will make sure that the 110th Congress will NOT address the climate problem.

*Gasp!*

He offered as his reason that "the information is not adequate," despite the fact that, as long ago as 2001, over a thousand climate experts published a report stating that "There is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming observed over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities."

No, wait . . . Now I really am gasping becase the Amazon rainforest is on fire and there's no fucking air.

[The bill] sets greenhouse gas emissions targets that will keep temperatures below the danger point. The level of emissions is frozen in 2010 and then gradually reduced each year through 2050.

2050? OK, I feel better; we probably don't have that long anyway.

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While leading climate scientists have been reluctant to link regional heat waves with rising temperatures in the world's atmosphere and oceans, they say the recent weather patterns are consistent with computer projections for global warming.

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A Danish brewery in Greenland is brewing beer using water from the melting Arctic ice-cap. As AccordionGuy sez, "when life gives you SARS, make sarsaparilla," or in this case, "When life gives you catastrophic global warming, get drunk."