"Daylight Exacerbates Warming"

[VTHodge]

Originally posted by: mugs
The best part is that she blamed it on the liberals who didn't have control of congress when the DST extension was passed. :laugh:

Nice, mugs! :beer:

 

[Aikouka]

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=38&threadid=2038105

 

[Kwaipie]

From Boingboing.net - UPDATE: Whew! BB reader Mike Avent says, "It's a tongue in cheek joke...a quick search of the authors name on the NWAnews.com website reveals a long history of tongue in cheek & snarky letters to the editor." Link and search "Connie Meskimen"

 

[Fingolfin269]

I'm not sure which to laugh at but I think the people who took it seriously deserve it more than anyone else.

 

[FoBoT]

somethings are too complex to understand

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: BrunoPuntzJones
And FWIW it's an actual article

I went to post it on here (we receive the Arkansas Democrat Gazette) but someone had already cut it out

Actually, I believe that article was in the Onion about 5 years ago. It's an "actual article", but the writer doesn't truly believe that.

 

[sao123]

Originally posted by: FleshLight
Imagine if we went back 4 hours. It'd be an Ice age!

:thumbsup:

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: Fingolfin269
I'm not sure which to laugh at but I think the people who took it seriously deserve it more than anyone else.

I once attended a lecture on global warming that was open to the public - I work at the college's Media Center, and one of my jobs is to videotape such events. I was there to hear the questions they asked afterwards. To say that the general public's knowledge of basic science, much less the workings of climate change theory, is merely "pathetically minimal" would be giving too much credit.

 

[VTHodge]

Originally posted by: Aikouka
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=38&threadid=2038105

Yeah, I did search for "Arkansas", "Letter", and "Daylight". Oh, well.

 

[VTHodge]

Featured on Snopes.

 

[Fingolfin269]

Originally posted by: Jeff7

Originally posted by: Fingolfin269
I'm not sure which to laugh at but I think the people who took it seriously deserve it more than anyone else.

I once attended a lecture on global warming that was open to the public - I work at the college's Media Center, and one of my jobs is to videotape such events. I was there to hear the questions they asked afterwards. To say that the general public's knowledge of basic science, much less the workings of climate change theory, is merely "pathetically minimal" would be giving too much credit.

True, but the truth of the writer's intentions is in the language. Go read it again. Anyone who wrote that cannot be stupid enough to think that daylight savings is to blame.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: Fingolfin269
True, but the truth of the writer's intentions is in the language. Go read it again. Anyone who wrote that cannot be stupid enough to think that daylight savings is to blame.

This argument does have some merit. There are some exceedingly well-read idiots out there, but fortunately they are rare.

 

[FoBoT]

incredible