Thursday, February 3, 2011

Ask Crankyjewishguy Vol.4: Global Warming a Hoax?

As readers of this blog know, crankyjewishguy (CJG) occasionally answers letters from readers. Today's letter comes from Gene in New Jersey who writes:

Dear CJG,
Now that I have chipped four inches of ice from my front walk, shoveled two more feet of snow, stayed home with my kids for the fifth snow day in two weeks, and am now waiting for the ice dams in my gutters to force melting snow to leak into my house I have two choice words for Al Gore and his global warming crap. Isn't it obvious by now that global warming is a left wing conspiracy dreamed up to prevent Americans from consuming their fair share of the Earth's resources?
Gene in New Jersey

Dear Gene,
You are a moron. CJG is embarrassed that you hail from his home state, but not surprised. Two-thousand-ten was the warmest year on record since scientists starting keeping track of such things. Did you write to CJG when you were sweating from your eyeballs last summer in the sweltering heat? Extreme weather, including colder, snowier winters in some places as a result of overall global warming has been predicted by climate scientists. And here's two more things that might surprise you: the Earth is round and, by virtue of being an American, you consumed your fair share of the planet's resources by the time you were four. Trade in your Hummer for a Prius and don't write to CJG again.

In 1914, the Endurance was locked in, and then crushed by,
Antarctic ice. Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew spent eighteen miserable months
 before reaching land and rescue. None died and none complained as much as
Gene from New Jersey who probably has his heat cranked up to 80.

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