Tuesday, January 25, 2011

We're saved!: Religious zealots plunge into cold water in yet another completely unsuccessful attempt to convince us that the world is overheating

The Potomac Plunge Against Climate Change | The Nation
The smile never left her face, even after Representative Donna Edwards plunged into the icy Potomac River on Saturday with two hundred local activists to urge stronger government action against climate change.

“I feel great,” a beaming Edwards told The Nation as she stood shivering in a wetsuit after emerging from a full-body immersion in the frigid river. It was the first time Edwards, an African-American who represents Maryland’s 4th congressional district, joined the annual Polar Bear Plunge organized by the Chesapeake Climate Action Network (C-CAN). And why, on a day when the air temperature in Washington measured 19 degrees Fahrenheit and the Potomac was 34 degrees, did the rising progressive star agree to such a stunt?
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“Don’t worry about needing willpower to go in the river,” an ear-flapped Tidwell exhorted the crowd minutes before the plunge.

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