Global warming warning
Posted on April 23rd, 2007 at 11:04 — Filed under Computers/Internet, Weather
The letter above was printed in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette of April 16th. Picked up by weblogs around the world, a colleague of mine noticed it and sent it along. A couple of observations:
- Contrary to what was reported on most blogs, Mr. Meskimen was not serious when he wrote this letter. That is, he apparently has a history of writing satirical letters, so it’s safe to assume this is just another one.
- Satire aside, the idea that Congress managed to get the sun to shine for an extra hour each day is hilarious.
- What, exactly, got exacerbated by starting DST a month earlier? Global warning? The Democrat-Gazette’s editors should be applauded for publishing this letter, but they should be slapped around for not noticing the difference between an n and an m.
May 1st, 2007 at 19:25
I think it’s the going thing for newspapers here to not pay attention to headlines and photo captions. The newspaper in the city where I work is notorious for glaring errors! In fact, it wouldn’t be as much fun to read if they paid more attention!
Now, as for congress not being able to get the sun to shine an extra hour each day … what are you saying? They don’t have that kind of power??? I think a few congressmen would dare to argue with you on THAT point! ha!