Tom Friedman Jumps The Flat Shark
October 29, 2007 at 2:15 am
Watch Tom Friedman connect the Southern California fires to … global warming:
Yes, I really enjoyed playing golf in late October, as though it were July. But you know what? It also felt a little freaky. Should I be enjoying this? Is there some connection between this and the fires I saw burning in California the very next day? I know the answer is complicated.
Suspected arsonists further complicating — or, more likely, simplifying — the story notwithstanding, I guess we need to fawn over Friedman’s golfy thoughts because, well he is a Pulitzer Prize winner, and he writes for the Sunday New York Times, and, well, the man doesn’t just define gravitas, he redefines it. But can’t the Times’ “foreign-affairs columnist” just stick to reminding us the world is flat and stop wondering why parts of it are on fire?
K T Cat said,
October 29, 2007 @ 10:19 am
Well, blaming global warming sure beats reporting things like this.
I’ve lived in San Diego for 30 years. Fires happen. This was a bad one, but I’ve seen four bad ones in that time. San Diegans realy pulled together this time and the place is filled with stories of kindness, generosity and concern for our neighbors. The firefighters were fantastic and some of them came from places quite far away.
You seem to have more pull than I do as a blogger. I’d sure appreciate it if you considered giving that link up above a bit wider play.
Mineral said,
October 29, 2007 @ 1:40 pm
I cannot understand why Friedman, who according to the July 2006 Washingtonian Magazine, lives alone with his wife in an 11000 square foot house, and who judging by the exotic local bylines of his columns must fly several hundred thousand miles per year (and almost certainly not by commercial coach class), has any credibility on Global Warming. He makes Gore’s hypocrisy on the issue look small by comparison.
Bandit said,
October 30, 2007 @ 8:43 am
Old wildfires = (act of God + enviro mismanagement of forests)
2007 wildfires = (Global warming + (GWB X evil)2)