Stop getting your panties in a knot, Stripey!

The fact that it happened in the past is at least circumstantial evidence that global warming is not man-made and that life has survived previous periods of warming and cooling that quite clearly happen in cycles. And even if humans are contributing to the current warming trend, so what? One or two degrees over the course of a hundred years is pretty much meaningless.

It doesn't matter how many people died in these little droughts that happen from time to time. You make it sound as if drought is something new that has never happened before. As for the flooding, well, if people are stupid enough to build their homes on a flood plain they deserve to die - and there's no proof that these were caused by global warming. As for cities swallowed up by rising seas, I have yet to hear of any.

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."