San Francisco, CA — April 1: In response to Nobel laureate Al Gore’s new $300 million ad campaign urging immediate action to fight global warming, a new California-based coalition, S.T.O.P, has formed to launch response ads.
S.T.O.P. — or Support Technology-Only Policies — was the brainchild of GOP strategiest Frank Luntz along with Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus of the Breakthrough Institute. STOP Board members include Newt Gingrich, Bjørn Lomborg, Roger Pielke, Jr, and Michael Crichton. President Bush is honorary Chair for Life.
Pielke, a well-known climate policy analyst and taxidermist, said, “Contrary to what the alarmists at ClimateProgress.org say, we don’t propose to fiddle while Rome burns. We propose doing research into musical instruments that can play themselves because I, for one, don’t want to keep fiddling forever.”
Luntz said that based on extensive polling and focus-group testing, the primary message of the organization was “Technology, technology, blah, blah, blah.” He said that message beat, “We need to take action now to save future generations,” by 52% to 43% among all Americans, 71% to 25% among all conservatives, and 92% to 5% among viewers of FoxNews.
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I think April fools jokes should be more light-hearted and funny, not “Ha ha, these people have a plan to cook the entire planet, ha ha.” It’s too real.
All I can say in my defense is, that as Jack Benny said on his deathbed:
“Catastrophic global warming is easy, comedy is hard.”
It’s a good idea to stay away from global-warming and evolution blogs on April 1. Because when it comes to global-warming or evolution denial, it’s almost impossible to distinguish the “serious” from the “tongue-in-cheek”.
Global-warming/evolution bloggers have it too easy on April 1.
That was awesome, Joe. Thanks for a hearty chuckle!