Bringing down the fever
Bookworm on Mar 22 2007 at 12:37 pm | Filed under: Climate change
A Best of the Web reader makes mincemeat of Bore’s fever analogy (”the earth has a fever” and it’s going to die unless everyone but Al gives up fuel consumption):
Reader Scott Jacobson questions Gore’s premise:
Some great news for Daddy Gore: Little baby Earth does not have a fever. It’s been awhile since Daddy Gore had a little bundle at home so maybe he has just forgotten that an infant is not considered to have a fever until her body temperature is at or above 100.4 degrees, or 1.8 degrees above normal. In the last century, little baby Earth’s temperature has only gone up “almost one degree.”
Overreacting is common among parents. I remember one morning when my first child was still an infant. Imagine my horror when I discovered that her temperature had risen to 99.5 degrees, almost a whole degree in just under 12 hours. Naturally, I immediately sat down and built a computer model, which clearly projected that by age 30, her temperature was going to be a staggering 19,710 degrees!
Thankfully, with the help of a patient wife and an impatient pediatrician, I came to realize that these fluctuations were normal, and that my baby daughter would not be going supernova by the time she reached her golden years.
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” There you go and say it again,”(thanks Gipper-you got that right)the Conservosaurs,talking and comparing a child’s fever with the temperature of the earth.Where or where do you get your scientists from ? Fantasyland or Capitalisticstan .Oh,both. Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii . . . . ce.
From Tennessee
That was the dingbat Gore who did that, not anyone else.
Just checking to see if you guys know your left foot from your right ! Good work !
Wasn’t there like a song named something Fever?
That’s hilarious!! Thank you very much.
That was the dingbat Gore who did that, not anyone else.
Funny.
If it wasn’t for Gore Y ,you wouldn’t be writing on the internet(sort of . . use your free verse imagination!). Leave him alone man! He won an Oscar and is a big time inventor like uh . . let me see. . . let’s say Thomas Edison . . ya Thomas Edison.Besides Bore (probably didn’t score ) was at the Academy Awards and made funny with Leonardo(how American is that ?).
YOUR JEALOUS !
ps He is a bit of Boron Moron but he is a great kisser. Ask Tipper .
Gore’s being picked on, leave him alone….