Comments on: Friday Funnies, via the UN

By: ClimateReview

ClimateReview — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:17:48 +0000

“$US50 billion has been spent on Global Warming research since ’90 with no proof of a man-made affect (Carter’08)”

So, that’s where are tax-payers dollars are being spent…

By: smurfy

smurfy — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:52:15 +0000

But if the farming and fishing industries dry up, where will the Johns get their money? And can we now use climate change as an affirmative defense to a soliciting charge?

By: epobirs

epobirs — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:04:24 +0000

I’m pretty sure there is something more innate to humans that causes prostitution.

Everything else is just details of a variant story.

By: colson

colson — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:25:23 +0000

Here’s a funny: What about the male prostitutes? Half of the “girls” working the road in Makati were men. I would venture a guess the person writing the report has never been in the Phillippines?

By: MJ

MJ — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:13:54 +0000

Yeah…or it could cause them to migrate to cities where the economy is not limited to the industries of farming, fishing and prostitution.

Who knows what neo-Malthusianism will come up with next?

By: dr kill

dr kill — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:40:00 +0000

“Climate change could reduce income from farming and fishing, possibly driving some women into sex work and thereby increase HIV infection,

As a man of science, I can’t disagree with a statement containing could and possibly.

And in an infinite universe there is certainly a place where this shit is the absolute truth.

By: Global Warming

Global Warming — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:09:48 +0000

This sounds much like the logic of one “Gail ‘the Rail’” who ran for office in Virginia. When asked how she would fight crime and improve the economy, she replied that she would build passenger rail lines. (Look it up, it’s true.)

By: me

me — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:50:58 +0000

This one is just dying for someone to add ‘think of the children’.

Also, someone needs to look into the moral consequences of people in colder climates wearing less revealing clothing.

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:50:19 +0000

At least now Al Gore won’t be the only climate whore.