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SUV: Our Savior
By Brock Yates 12/30/2002
Ravaged by guilt, I was about to cancel my order for a new, three-ton, fly yellow, 300-jillion horsepower, gas-swilling Hummer H2 and spec out a Chinese-built, 20-speed Mountain Bike. But Whoa! Wait a minute! Hold on I'm keeping the Hummer in play and while I'm at it, ordering a set of Bridgestone Blizzak snow tires, with studs, and an Everest-level parka from Eddie Bauer.
Just as I was completing my conversion to a full-Green, politically-correct, anti-global warming fanatic, comes word that the world is about to get colder, not warmer. Club Med is canceling resort plans for Spitzbergen and Steve Wynn is re-thinking his Laurentians Mirage as a new claque of Chicken Littles, led by one Raymond Schmitt, Jr., a senior scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, sound the tocsin.
According to Schmitt, he and his buddies have discovered a mass of rogue fresh water in the salty North Atlantic that has been expanding for the last seven years. Fifteen million square miles of invading H20 that if it continues, could slow down, dilute or divert the Gulf Stream and all its cozy warm water that tempers the climate on our east coast and in Northern Europe. A nose-dive in Fahrenheit from five to 10 degrees is possible, meaning that the recent ice storm that made Charlotte, North Carolina look like the ice palace in the current James Bond thriller, will repeat itself every Fourth of July.
call forth the SUV as our savior (http://www.techcentralstati on.com/1051/techwrapper.jsp?PID= 1051-250&CID=1051-123002A)
SUV: Our Savior
By Brock Yates 12/30/2002
Ravaged by guilt, I was about to cancel my order for a new, three-ton, fly yellow, 300-jillion horsepower, gas-swilling Hummer H2 and spec out a Chinese-built, 20-speed Mountain Bike. But Whoa! Wait a minute! Hold on I'm keeping the Hummer in play and while I'm at it, ordering a set of Bridgestone Blizzak snow tires, with studs, and an Everest-level parka from Eddie Bauer.
Just as I was completing my conversion to a full-Green, politically-correct, anti-global warming fanatic, comes word that the world is about to get colder, not warmer. Club Med is canceling resort plans for Spitzbergen and Steve Wynn is re-thinking his Laurentians Mirage as a new claque of Chicken Littles, led by one Raymond Schmitt, Jr., a senior scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, sound the tocsin.
According to Schmitt, he and his buddies have discovered a mass of rogue fresh water in the salty North Atlantic that has been expanding for the last seven years. Fifteen million square miles of invading H20 that if it continues, could slow down, dilute or divert the Gulf Stream and all its cozy warm water that tempers the climate on our east coast and in Northern Europe. A nose-dive in Fahrenheit from five to 10 degrees is possible, meaning that the recent ice storm that made Charlotte, North Carolina look like the ice palace in the current James Bond thriller, will repeat itself every Fourth of July.
call forth the SUV as our savior (http://www.techcentralstati on.com/1051/techwrapper.jsp?PID= 1051-250&CID=1051-123002A)