On Dec 22, 2007, at 3:51 PM, Janice Matchett wrote:
>
> "Some people think that our planet is suffering from a fever. Now
> scientists are telling us that Mars is experiencing its own
> planetary warming: Martian warming. It seems scientists have noticed
> recently that quite a few planets in our solar system seem to be
> heating up a bit, including Pluto. NASA says the Martian South
> Pole's "ice cap" has been shrinking for three summers in a row.
> Maybe Mars got its fever from earth. If so, I guess Jupiter's caught
> the same cold, because it's warming up too, like Pluto. This has led
> some people, not necessarily scientists, to wonder if Mars and
> Jupiter, non-signatories to the Kyoto Treaty, are actually inhabited
> by alien SUV-driving industrialists who run their air-conditioning
> at 60 degrees and refuse to recycle. Silly, I know, but I wonder
> what all those planets, dwarf planets, and moons in our solar system
> have in common. Hmm. Solar system. Hmmmm. Solar? I wonder. Nah, I
> guess we shouldn't even be talking about this. The science is
> absolutely decided. There's a consensus. Ask Galileo." ~ Fred
> Thompson -- April 2007, speaking about climate change on Paul
> Harvey's radio show
Sigh. Such utter cluelessness would be scary until you realize that
Thompson is polling tied for 5th place in Iowa at 8% and 6th place in
New Hampshire at 3%. Source: Scott Rasmussen.
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