I can't stay away from the Triangle John Locke Foundation blog. I was expecting some silliness, but they are bringing the hardcore far-right hijinx on a daily basis. Check out today's reductio ad retardum from Mr. Ham:
New York <font>broke a temperature record today</font>. One problem: It was a record for the coldest high, breaking a record set in 1999. It was also the chilliest August high since 1911.
Oooooohhhh damn! Take that, you hippies! Where's Al Gore now? Probably out buying a sweater and some mittens made of hemp! He'll need them when he's replacing the insulation on his 600,000 square foot mansion!!!!
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I don't know where to start with this. Okay, first, what I quoted up there is his entire post! As if it's self-explanatory that single 'chilly' day in August in a single city refutes the piles and piles and piles and piles of evidence about global warming. Not even man-made global warming, but global warming in general. Hey, the Yankees got the shit kicked out of them last night (18-9). However, checking the box score I see that the Yankees scored 4 runs in the ninth, and the Angels scored zero! Take that, Anaheim! If the Angles were beating up the Yankees so bad, why did the Yankees outscore them 4-0 in the ninth?????? If you extrapolate that to tonight's game, it will be a 36-0 victory for the Yankees!!!! Take that, Anaheim-Angels-outscoring-the-Yankees-alarmists!!!!
Also, I know a guy who has smoked for almost 40 years and he totally doesn't have cancer! Where's your fancy science now, anti-smoking nazis!
Then again, what should I expect from an organization which published a North Carolina Citizen's Guide to Global Warming written by a member of the American Enterprise Institute? And shock of shocks, they didn't see fit to disclose AEI's ties to ExxonMobilanywhere in that report!
Summer 2007: The summer of love, when I met the John Locke Foundation's blog.
(Crossposted at my blog, The Midpoint)