Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
February 9th, 2007 by Carbon CoalitionForget the physical contest, the new “Rebel Billionaire” will be a true reality competition but this time determined by wit. The prize is big–$25 million–and the challenge, well, it’s simple: save planet earth from the impending threats of global warming. Easy. According to this story from the Associated Press, Sir Richard Branson, Virgin group chairman and global warming activist, announced today that he would give a $25 million prize to the first scientist who comes up with a way to extract greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. Branson explains, “man created the problem, therefore man should solve the problem.” Here’s an idea, let’s plant trees…show me the money!
Yesterday NH Democratic Chairman Kathy Sullivan and Republican Chairman Fergus Cullen announced that the nationwide scramble to move state presidential primaries earlier is only helping NH and hurting everyone else. Kathy Sullivan explains “everything like this that happens is just making NH more important. The more states that move up , the more important we become and, ironically, the less important they become because there will be so many of them.” As of right now if the NH Primary is to be held on January 16th, which has not officially been determined, then there could be up to 16 states holding primaries or caucuses in the two weeks following. (Read the entire story from the Union Leader here.)
Also, here’s an interesting piece in the Nashua Telegraph. According to the writer “the world is flat,” which makes this whole “global warming” thing even more absurd because we all should know “our earth is not a globe.” If you can see through to the sarcasm–so thick that it’s hard to detect–you might get a good laugh:
Who would any sensible ordinary person believe?
A talk-show host or a couple of thousand climate change scientists from 113 countries?
…hmm. it’s a hard one!
Why, a talk-show host, of course!
Maybe this conversation between John Stewart and Steven Colbert will help clarify things.
