Question: If the 1974 Democratic National Committee had made it's headquarters in L'Enfant Plaza Hotel, would every pseudo-scandal be affixed with the suffix -fant?
Por ejemplo: "Oh man! Did you here about the entire football team getting arrested for embezzlement? Holy god man. Get ready for Footballfant!"
Not only does that not make any sense, (notice -fant isn't actually a suffix, but just the latter half of the word L'Enfant) it just sounds dumb. So the next time there are rat droppings at Denny's (Hot Cake-Gate) or when a 1938 Parisian ballet turns out to be an international drug smuggling ring (GaîtéGate) just call it something else.
That said, I am pained to bring you what professional journalists, scientists and ass-clowns have dubbed "ClimateGate." (That repeated banging you're hearing is my head against my wall)
Basically what happened, before the anti-grammar heathens got their grubby, anti-grammatical hands on the issue, was that a some scientists fudged a bunch of data about the climate crisis, tried to cover it up, and got caught when someone hacked into their email accounts. Long story short: The Himalayas will still be there when Will Smith is saving the earth from a robot uprising.
Uh... I couldn't find a place to put this link in the last sentence, so... SPLADOW!
So while this is pretty troubling, it is nice to know that scientists are just as dumb as the rest of us sometimes. And it sure puts OdenGate in perspective. (If you don't know, you don't want to, so I won't link to it. But you probably know.)
It just seems so easy to understand the effect that mass-scale industrialization is going to have on an ecosystem. It boggles the mind that some people are so resiliently ignoring simple logic in favor of wide-sweeping generalizations. And it's really quite unfortunate that such a key piece of supposed "scientific evidence" has been proven to be fraudulent. It just gives the naysayers more ammunition.
One last note: I can't decide if this is sad or scary.
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