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Bush Finally Gets Serious About Climate Change

OK, this is a little old, but since I've been chuckling about it for a week now, I figured it was worth a post. In one of those special nailing-it moments, The Onion offered this headline:

Addressing Climate Crisis, Bush Calls For Development Of National Air Conditioner

with this handy explanatory graphic:

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Comments

I love theonion! I've been reading it since 1996. The scary thing is that if this happens, it wouldn't be the first time theonion successfully anticipated the news. Check this out from January, 2001.

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28784

Posted by: Misanthropic Scott on 06/27/07 at 2:00 PM  Respond

BEIJING (Reuters) - About 460,000 Chinese die prematurely each year from breathing polluted air and drinking dirty water, according to a World Bank study. Bush should put pressure on China to clean up their act. Boycott Chinese imports until they stop killing their people.

Posted by: Lee on 07/03/07 at 5:28 PM  Respond

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