Anthropogenic global warming...

...seems pretty dubious to me, or at least a small factor in a much larger picture (since history records, e.g., Greenland's being green). But the story GorT cites just reminds me of the old joke about the nuclear-launch error that was going to immanentize the eschaton* the next day.

USA Today headlines WE'RE DONE!

The Wall Street Journal: Markets to Close at Noon: World at Three

The Washington Post: World to End Today: Blacks & Hispanics Hardest Hit

All groan together.


*In the Illuminatus!, not the Vögelin-Buckleyan, sense.