Sunday, January 07, 2007

Run for Your Lives, It's Gorebal Whining!

Liberal Chicken Littles just aren't happy unless they're worried. Gorebal Whining provides them with an excuse to be perpetually fearful. If the end of the world truly is coming, they don't even have the promise of Heaven to fall back on. The temperature got up to 70 degrees in the nation's capital Saturday. Anyone who thinks that's a bad thing should read this article.

Never has good weather felt so bad. Never have flowers inspired so much fear. Never has the warm caress of a sunbeam seemed so ominous. The weather is sublime, it's glorious, it's the end of the world.

January is the new March. The daffodils are busting out everywhere. It's porch weather. Put on a T-shirt and shorts, fire up the grill, blast "Rastaman Vibration" into the back yard. Everyone out for volleyball! The normal high for this time of year is 43 degrees; yesterday's high at Reagan National was a record-breaking 73. And yet it's all a guilty pleasure. Weather is both a physical and a psychological phenomenon. Meteorology, meet eschatology. We've read the articles, we've seen the Gore movie, we've calculated our carbon footprint, and we're just not intellectually capable anymore of fully enjoying warm winter weather. Just ain't right. Ain't natural. Cherry blossoms during the NFL playoffs? Run for your lives.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

So how's global warming causing the Blizzards in Colorado? Why is it so dang cold here?

Personally, I don't care if the coasts go into the sea if it means we won't see -40 degree weather ever again.

I WANT GLOBAL WARMING!!!! But alas, I think it's as much of a myth as a liberal American

Lone Ranger said...

Actually, I wouldn't mind seeing San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York slip beneath the waves.

The coldest day I ever experienced, it was -35 in North Dakota. There were also high winds and blowing snow. That was the day our cat disappeared. Never did find him. I think I was in the 6th grade.

Anonymous said...

I lived close to Williston It always is colder up that way.

Yahoo has an article saying that the warmer weather allowing the whooping crane to rebound. So, may be global warming is good for the enviroment.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070106/ap_on_sc/whooping_cranes

Mark said...

The thing I can't figure out about Gorebal Whining is this: These so-called experts say that because the average temperatures will go up a whole degree in the next hundred years, the ice caps will melt and all the coastal cities will be underwater.

Does that mean the average tempaeratures at the poles, North and south, is hovering right about freezing, 32 degrees F? Because if it is indeed -40 or colder there all year round, I fail to see how the temps going 1 degree warmer will melt anything.

Lone Ranger said...

I've heard from plenty of people that there's no such thing as an average global temperature.

I like to think of myseolf as fairly smart. And when I look at something from every angle and it still doesn't make sense, I tend to smell something fishy.

tugboatcapn said...

Maybe Gore needs to come to D.C. and give a speech on Global Warming...

Everywhere he goes, they have record cold temperatures...

The Media has started calling it "The Gore Effect"...