All the way from Tim Buck two
DemonSpawn
Date:
30/11/2007
You know, people are always going on about how "this is the hottest summer we've ever had! It must be global warming!" and it pisses me off. I mean, besides the obvious issue that the effects of global warming are not a drastic temperature increase and nothing else, if you look at temperature trends for the last few decades, the temperature alone has dropped and risen quite a few times, on average, not just increased. If they actually take a look at the facts, they will find that it's not the hottest summer in the history of the world, but only the hottest summer that their faulty innards can remember, which is actually quite a different story altogether.But then I heard the most interesting thing a couple of days ago. It was refreshingly cute in a ridiculous sort of way: "This summer is the wettest we've had in ages; why is it raining all the time?" This perceptive comment came from a life-long Durban-dweller, who should by now know that every time we've had floods, or any other kind of wet, monsoon-like weather, it has been around this time, and that our KZN (KwaZulu-Natal) summer is generally rainy.
How does one not notice what the weather does in one's own town? Does one have to live with a plastic bag over one's head? And where do these people come from, in any case? I thought that it was only characters in bad movies that ask stupid questions like, "Will this rain ever end?" or "I wonder how long this summer will last?"
For fuck's sake!
And then there was one.
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