Monday, July 24, 2006

Now I Know Al Gore is Wrong

So I'm reading Peter King's Monday Morning Quarterback expecting football talk and I get this:
Wherever you are, have you noticed the weird weather patterns in the last few months? Unending, intense rain. High winds. It was in the midst of a 12th day of measurable rain in a 14-day period that I saw An Inconvenient Truth, the Al Gore movie about global warming.

This is the most apolitical piece of advice I could ever give you, because I realize Al Gore is not popular with all of you. And I really don't care very much about Gore weaving details of his personal life into the global-warming lecture. But you should see this movie and judge the facts for yourself. What's happening out here is no isolated occurrence. It's going to keep happening and it's going to get worse. Facts are facts. And we all need to do something about this phenomenon of the Earth heating up and the polar ice caps melting. This is not exactly the venue to warn the world about global warming, but all you football junkies readying for your fantasy drafts should do one real-world thing in the next couple of weeks: take two hours to see this movie. I'm not saying you'll be glad you did, because it's going to slap you around mentally a bit. But it's something you need to see. You don't want to wake up in 15 years with the Earth permanently damaged and huge portions of the Earth's surface under water, forever.
King is notorious for bad preseason picks (last year he picked the Minnesota Vikings to win the Super Bowl - instead the Vikes completely missed the playoffs). I really wish he would just stick to football though. When he brings up subjects like baseball or politics - he just comes off as a goofball.

I would also like to know if King went out, sold his car and bought a Prius before preaching this stuff to his readers. I really doubt it though. Kings strikes me as the type of guy who likes his air conditioning and comfort too much.

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