| thetonestarr said: This past summer was the mildest we've had here in the States for years. Here in Cincinnati, it's the mildest we've had since the '90s. If global-warming as defined by popular science were indeed true, that wouldn't happen. By definition, global-warming means that extreme temperatures (hot summers and cold winters) become more and more extreme. Instead, this year has seen the least extreme temperatures we've seen in ages. It was a warm winter, and it was a cool summer. That defies global warming and instead supports the opposite. |
Regardless of whether or not man-made global warming is real, basing any kind of inference off of one summer's worth of data rather than an aggregate trend is simply flawed reasoning, whatever conclusion you reach.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
