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GliderGuider

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Wed Jan 8, 2014, 07:25 PM Jan 2014

The Onion scores again! ‘It’s Not Too Late To Reverse The Alarming Trend Of Climate Change...’

‘It’s Not Too Late To Reverse The Alarming Trend Of Climate Change,’ Scientists Who Know It’s Too Late Announce

GENEVA—With the implementation of tighter carbon emissions caps and more responsible household energy use, it is not too late to reverse the dire course of global warming, a panel of scientists who know full well that it is far too late and we are all doomed told reporters today. “If we all do our part right now to design and enforce more responsible business and environmental practices, there’s still a good chance we can avoid the calamitous consequences of worldwide climate change,” said climatologist Dr. Kevin Little, a man who, deep in his heart, knows all too acutely that it’s over, there’s not a damned thing we can do, and so we might as well just start preparing now for what is certain to be the unprecedented destruction of human civilization at the hands of a ravaged ecosystem. “It will take massive investment and cooperation on a global scale, but I’m optimistic we can be in good shape by around 2030 or so.” The researchers who awake each morning with the grim realization that they are bearing witness to mankind’s sad, inevitable endgame also suggested there is still very much a chance of stabilizing the rapid loss of Arctic sea ice.

The Onion's edge is getting edgier and sharper - as tends to happen when humorists tell the truth.
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The Onion scores again! ‘It’s Not Too Late To Reverse The Alarming Trend Of Climate Change...’ (Original Post) GliderGuider Jan 2014 OP
Shame the Onion didn't publish that in 1850. dipsydoodle Jan 2014 #1
Ouch. DavidDvorkin Jan 2014 #2

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