Global Cooling--A Tall Tale
Ken Drummnd July
30, 2006
--from Stories Tall
and Short
Why, I can recollect, ye see, way back
in the early part
of the century. It was about 2010 somewhere around there, well, near as
I can remember anyway.
Ye see, around that time there
was all this talk
of global warming. There was global warming this and global warming
that. It got to be that was just about the main topic of conversation.
If there was a hot summer then it was global warming. If it was an
extra warm winter then it was--you guessed it--global warming.
And if
it
was a cold winter, then that was somehow global warming too, kind of a
rebound effect I guess it was. If the ice caps at the poles were
melting then it was global warming did it. But if temperatures were
cooling down in some area then that was due to a change in the ocean
currents that was somehow caused by-- global warming.
Well, I
bought into it just the same as everyone else did, and one
Saturday a few of my neighbors and me, we got to talking.
“Why don’t
we try to reverse the trend?” old Paul was saying.
“Yeah, and
how would you do that?” I replied.