Friday Funny – facts don’t matter to dumpster diving journalist Fox Van Allen | Watts Up With That?

We have asked Fox Van Allen to correct the story on Twitter. His response? Via twitter:

“OH MY GOD YOU GUYS I PISSED SENATOR JIM INHOFE OFF this is turning out to be an amazing day”

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Thanks to President Obama, I can now fill up my truck with gas for less than the price of 2 light bulbs!

Global warming skeptics: witch-hunts in the 21st century - Boston environmental policy | Examiner.com

Since hundreds of years before Christ, humankind's other scapegoat had been witches (sorcerers, warlocks, etc…). It was brought to the New World and flourished as a means of having someone to blame for poor crop yields, droughts, mental illness, untimely deaths, or simply not liking your neighbor. Call her a witch, put her on trial, and proceed to burn her.

We've come a long way since the 18th century. And we have a new scapegoat for all the aforementioned, with "real" science to back it up, and "real" environmental lawyers to bring the offenders to trial, and "real" penalties to pay when judges rely on finger-pointing computer models.

We now call it global warming, or climate change, or any combination thereof, and when someone stands up and says, "This science is just not right," they're called accomplices to the planet's murder, or worse, deniers of science (a blatant attempt to link them to Holocaust deniers).

Keep in mind that the belief in a bogeyman, like global warming, "presents a framework to explain the occurrence of otherwise random misfortunes," examples being heat waves, droughts, floods, glacial calving, extreme cold or heat, snowstorms, or unorthodox views.