You may not know me.
I used to be Vice President of the United States.
I managed to lose a presidential election in an historic manner and dragged the country through the courts for weeks before conceding the obvious.
Despondent, I put on fifty pounds and grew a big bushy beard. But then I snapped out of it.
I traveled the world whipping up fears of a global climate crisis. I was the toast of al the capitols of Europe.
I made an award winning “documentary” that twisted the facts (see Hockey Stick etc.) to support my thesis and I even won the Nobel Prize for my antics.
I did all this and all I have to show for it is a lousy 41%.
[Rasmussen] Forty-four percent (44%) of U.S. voters now say long-term planetary trends are the cause of global warming, compared to 41% who blame it on human activity.
Seven percent (7%) attribute global warming to some other reason, and nine percent (9%) are unsure in a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
How is it possible? I have had the world wide media on my side for the better part of a decade backing every silly claim of global warming. Politicians across the globe shouting down any dissenters. We heaped peer pressure on any unconvinced scientist by insisting on consensus and ridiculed anyone who did not get in line. I did everything right. Everything.
There was just one thing I didn’t count on. It got colder. Damn Sun.
I think I will get fat and grow a beard again.
Who am I? Who cares?
January 20, 2009 at 3:36 pm
Good ol’ Whatsisname. I’ll never forget him.
Too bad he didn’t do anything really important, like invent the Internet or something. Then we’d all remember his name.
January 20, 2009 at 4:00 pm
The 41% of The People (bless ’em) who believe in global warming and fairies would be the same 41% who voted for Whosis.
— Mack
January 20, 2009 at 4:10 pm
Manbearpig! I’m serial!
January 20, 2009 at 4:48 pm
But let’s not forget I invented the internet… and the post-it note (oh wait, that was Romi and Michelle, ahhhhh, who cares?!?!?)
I’m just the Gorbicle!
January 21, 2009 at 12:58 am
Just because North America is colder for one season doesn’t mean the rest of the world is experiencing the same – take a look at the ice caps, which remain at a low size and continue to shrink.
Mock him all you want because he’s a Democrat and you don’t understand the science. But he’s still correct.
January 21, 2009 at 12:59 am
Well he and Tipper WERE the inspiration for “Love Story” (can we burn them at the stake for that?).
January 21, 2009 at 3:26 pm
“I think I will get fat and grow a beard again.”
He’s already halfway there.
January 22, 2009 at 5:00 am
Anonymous-
The world has been getting cooler monotonically since 1998. The best measures – ocean temperature and satellite data on the atmosphere – show the biggest effect. Regarding the ice caps, Antarctic ice is the most extensive it’s been in decades. The Arctic cap was shrinking, but has been growing for the last two years, and is currently growing at the most rapid rate in several decades. Get your data straight, and check sources outside the well-paid warmist community.
January 23, 2009 at 9:59 pm
Sigh. Read an actual journal, Materialist:
http://www.nature.com/climate/index.html