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**Posted:** Sat Apr 07, 2007 10:37 pm

So Gus drops in for a visit. Actually for a light lunch. Actually for a beer and some munchies.
Emmy tosses Gus a beer and a bag of pretzels with a "Whatssup Gus?"
"The beer is warm" replies Gus. "Must be Global Warming!"

"Don't be flippant regarding the coming apocalypse Gus" replied an indignant EmmyLou.
"I'll have you know Al Gore won a Oscar for letting the cat out of the bag with his enlightening documentary on climate change. The sea is going to rise 22 feet in 44 years"

"That was all rebutted with the following documentary: The Great Global Warming Swindle (2007). Man made climate change is a hoax designed to divaricate addlepated boneheads and their specie with startling prematurity" I wisely smirked.

"But you can't deny the world's temperature went up 1/2 a degree this last century. The icebergs are melting and the polar bears are slipping into mush" retorts Emmy.

"Here's proof" added Gus, flipping a couple of pictures across the table. People are hot. Hotties are shedding their sweaters, socks and shoes.

"The Earth slowly but surely warmed half a degree in the 19th century, the same amount in 18th century and over the course of the latter part of the 17th century. Ice core samples in Greenland prove it," opined Emmy.

"Maybe the Earth is still recovering from the Little Ice Age," Gus says, "indicated by the consistent rate of warming over the centuries."
"You just a Holocaust denier" observed Emmy. Al Gores graphs of CO2 rising and global warming is scary. The IPCC scientists all agree with Al. We are doomed."

"What about China?" I asked. "Canada's carbon role is worth only 2.3% of total world carbon emissions. China is adding the equivalent of a new Canada every year!"

"Any more beer?" Gus inquired. "I have proof positive that global warming is affecting the world. It is making drier places drier and wetter places wetter. It is employing tens of thousands of people who need the boogeyman to stay employed.
The red fox is moving North in Canada. The polar bears are moving South. Somebody needs to to talk to the sun. Darn thing is getting hotter"

"So" says Emmy, "your proof better than mine? I have proof Climate Change is affecting the birds and bees, the animals and reptiles. Look what it has it has done to the fauna. Look how climate change has affected the animals. Humans could be next. How would you like a elephant's trunk?"

"hhhmmm well all depends where!".....I mused.