George Bush may question the authenticity of Global Warning but world events might give him pause to think about the definite possibility that it exists. I, for one need no convincing. A symbol of the Canadian Arctic that loaned its outline to North-West Territories license plates, the polar bear, may become extinct for lack of ice floes to enable it to hunt seals. The ice bridges that enabled trucking to northern communities in winter can no longer be trusted. Inuit in the High Arctic can no longer trust sea ice for transportation and hunting. Diseases, funguses, and moulds that were formerly unknown in Canada are managing to survive in our soil and crops over-winter and now threaten our health. For the second year in a row there will be no ice wine harvest in Canada as temperatures are not cold enough to support its harvest. And for the same reason I will not be able to store the contents of my deep freeze on my balcony while I defrost it this weekend.
In other news we learn of the hanging of a Koran-clutching Saddan Hussein. The dispatch with which this sentence was carried out by Islamic Justice seems remarkable considering that the appeal process in America would have delayed his execution by five to seven years. Methinks the Yankee Infidel may well live to rue the creation of such a martyr to the cause.
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