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Ah, Tradition

Iain Murray:

...Inuit representatives complained about the effect climate change was having on their ancient way of life in that their snowmobiles kept dropping through the ice.
Posted by Rand Simberg at December 07, 2005 11:56 AM
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Dammit, you broke my irony meter. Again.

Posted by Ed Minchau at December 7, 2005 05:35 PM

hah hah. :(
so, now "conservatives" say that:
"ok, global warming is true"
but add:
"but it's only funny".

Posted by meiza at December 7, 2005 07:04 PM

Not being a "conservative," I wouldn't know.

But the notion of "ancient traditions" being defined by snowmobiles is pretty damn funny.

Posted by Rand Simberg at December 7, 2005 07:18 PM

I thought an ancient snowmobile was a dog sled! Which was used because it was a way to spread the loade of the sled over a greater distance, and keeps the Inuit from getting his big walrus butt wet.

I do believe in global warming and I am a conservative. I don't think however we are the cause. The current global warming, is the current climatic part of a greater cycle.

Theory has it that the Inuit probably GOT to Canada and Alaska during global cooling by walking across the Bering Land Bridge, during the last ice age.

Also European Scientists are worried that the release of fresh water into the Atlantic Ocean. Which will cause temperatures to drop, which would offset the current trend of warming.

Old Mother Earth, will NOT let us desrtoy but so much of her. She's just too big for us to kill, destroy, despoil forver.

Posted by Steve at December 8, 2005 06:34 AM

My ancient way of life was compromised last month when it got too chilly for me to sit on my front porch in Bermuda shorts -- something I and my people have been able to do since last May!

Posted by McGehee at December 8, 2005 09:11 AM

Old Mother Earth, will NOT let us desrtoy but so much of her. She's just too big for us to kill, destroy, despoil forver.

So "she" is "too big" to be an infinite resource?

Posted by Karl Hallowell at December 8, 2005 09:20 AM


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