I was walking back to my car the other night and took a short cut when I came upon one of the many so-called "soothsayers" peddling their craft near Jackson Square. One of them cried (as I passed) "Let me tell ya 'bout the weather!" I grew curious, so after anteing up, here is what he said:
He said most idiots think there's no such thing as global warming because of the extreme winters. He said the two are actually related, and the result of this same careless fucking around with the earth's delicate balance, having gone on now for quite some time, though vehemently denied by opponents of corporate and industry regulation as the rantings of lunatics under a delusion promoted by the so called liberal media. He added that the same atmospheric changes that allow for increased amounts of heat radiation to burn our asses in the summer also make for colder winters. Now we can expect extremes of both. Adding to those extremes the floods resulting from the melting of enormous amounts of snow, and extremely devastating weather situations, not to mention the yet unknown effects of such climatic extremes upon the seismic activity of the earth's crust.
All our comeuppance, sayeth he, for the callous way in which mankind has treated his planet, the same planet that has now begun to kick our asses in various ways, as if to rid itself of this "plague" - or send us a warning at the least. So he said.
I tipped him an extra dollar and decided to stop for coffee and beignets.
