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“With United Nations climate negotiators facing an uphill battle to advance their goal of reducing emissions linked to global warming, it's no surprise that the woman steering the talks appealed to a Mayan goddess Monday. Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, invoked the ancient jaguar goddess Ixchel in her opening statement to delegates gathered in Cancun, Mexico, noting that Ixchel was not only goddess of the moon, but also "the goddess of reason, creativity and weaving".”
— Juliet Eilperin, 11/29/2010 (washingtonpost.com)
OK, I am not a religious bigot. Nor am I a proponent of misogyny, OK? But when discussing an issue that purports to have a basis in scientific research, I draw the line before invoking the goddess of weaving, OK? Break me a fecking give!
On the other hand, it is an improvement over soliciting the "expertise" of Al "Poodles" Gore. And no, I have nothing against "sex-crazed poodles", per se. It's just that I prefer our former Vice Presidents to have the decency to seek a lower profile and to shut the feck up. But I digress.
OK, after a few moments of retrospection, I must admit that, given the complete absence of standards in what is euphemistically referred to as "climate science", perhaps the goddess Ixchel can't make the situation any worse. Let's go with plan "B".
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