Thursday, May 27, 2004
Today, The Day After Tomorrow Is Tomorrow
on Saturday, The Day After Tomorrow Will Be Yesterday. [sooo yesterday]I recommend reading the article, but for those in a hurry, and to fix it in my mind[meeee, it's all about meeeeee], I 'll make an executive summary. Plot point: Global warming causes the Gulf Stream to shut down Actual Science: Carl Wunsch, a professor of physical oceanography at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, wrote in the science journal Nature that the scenario depicted in the movie requires one to "turn off the wind system, or to stop the Earth's rotation, or both." Plot point: The frigid stratosphere trades places with our habitable troposphere Actual Science: yes, when all three laws of thermodynamics are repealed. [probably by a Democratic Congress] Plot point: Folks in Japan are clobbered by bowling-ball-size hailstones. Actual Science: Hailstones can't reach bowling-ball size because their growth is limited by gravity. [which I really hope the Dems don't repeal -- it's hard enough as it is to vacuum the kids' footprints off the ceiling...] Plot point: Hurricanes ravage Belfast Actual Science: The island of Ireland is in the way. Final nail in the coffin of this [...what's a better word for "giant steaming pile of outright bullshit that will, because of the abysmal state of state education and utter inability of most people to even recognize a scientific fact, be with us for years and years despite all evidence demonstrating its utter lack of foundation in anything even resembling fact?"] It is based on a book, Coming Global Superstorm, by [wait for it...] Art Bell and Whitley Strieber. For those of you who are non-insomniacs, Art Bell is a guy who lives out in the desert, in the traditionally undisclosed location [somewhere near Area 51 I b'elive,] and has a late night syndicated radio show where he discussed his visits with aliens, abductions [complete with lovingly described ...probes][not quite Wonkette, but...], vapor trails/chem trails, black helicopters, LGMs, conversations with ghosts, ..... well, you get the point. I even think I heard a discussion about unicorns, once, before I pushed the radio out the window. [I lose more radios that way...] "Whitley Strieber's previous work, Communion... explained that he was told of the Earth's upcoming apocalypse by aliens. And how this knowledge was communicated is much more the purview of an adult Web site than a family newspaper." [ok, just eww] ...and from the "You'll Know Them by the Company They Keep" department: The "film's" biggest promoter? MoveOn.org, billionaire George Soros' policy toy. Al Gore front and center, pimping the film. The website using the movie to drum up support for legislation by Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Joe Lieberman, D-Conn. which mimic the United Nations' infamous Kyoto Protocol -- you know, the one designed to send the US Back to the Caves in Droves™ clearing the way for other industrializing nations to take our place? [think Rand's whatthehell was the name of that story -- the one with the weighted dancers -- brainfreeze] NB: The Interrocitor has more on the KP. [is McCain losing a wee bit o' credibility lately, or is it just me?] [and Joe! think, man, think!] Remember the'Day After Tomorrow': A lot of hot air By Patrick J. Michaels As a scientist, I bristle when lies dressed up as "science" are used to influence political discourse. The latest example is the global-warming disaster flick, The Day After Tomorrow.
We're meeting at 9pm on IVAR AVE between SUNSET and DE LONGPRE.
If you possibly can, join him!
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