Baseball needs global warming

And with the 2009 Series scheduled to bleed into November, baseball has only two hopes:

Participants from tropical cities.

More global warming.

Parallel universe costed | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

...It won’t be a $1 and it won’t save the planet.

The Treasury costings it’s talking about - which claim Rudd’s emissions trading scheme won’t cost much at all - makes even more assumptions. Here’s a short list: it assumes untested alternative low-carbon technologies (like carbon capture) will be easily invented and installed; it assumes India and China were kidding when they said they won’t slash their emissions, too; it assumes we haven’t just gone through a financial crisis; it assumes that cutting emissions will actually lower the temperature; it assumes global warming hasn’t stopped and will hurt; it assumes that offsets bought overseas make a genuine difference.

That’s an impressive list.