Global Warming is SO last season

Global warming. El Nino. Hurricanes. Death. Destruction.

All have lost their novelty, glamour, and luster due to the sluggish economy. Particularly global warming. I remember growing up with a remote fear embedded deep within the back burner of my fledgling psyche that one day, all of the polar ice caps would melt and we'd all drown in the fall out of Antarctica. Comparatively, a temporarily downtrodden economy is exceedingly less harrowing than the looming promise of aquatic annihilation. It's nice to be at a point where terror is derived from The Wall Street Journal, as opposed to National Geographic. I mean, who WOULDN'T rather dwell on time limited economic doom, rather than certain nature-induced death. I, for one, am grateful.

Here's a wonderful quote to sum it all up:

"As a scientist and life-long liberal Democrat, I find the constant regurgitation of the anecdotal, fear mongering clap-trap about human-caused global warming to be a disservice to science" -Dr. Martin Hertzberg