Posted on 09/26/2005 9:12:28 AM PDT by freeperbaby
Into the storm -- no pun intended -- that is Katrina and Rita's wake, comes no less an expert than Barbra Streisand. In an interview with ABC's Dianne Sawyer to promote her upcoming CD with Barry Gibb, she veered off course and declared a "global warming emergency". Maybe the waves are getting too close to her seaside estate, not sure. "For the United States not to be part of the Kyoto treaty is unforgivable" said the singer, ignoring for the moment that this was a pretty lopsided (i.e., 95-0) vote in the US Senate, including many recipients of her largess both direct and indirect.
In any event, her global warming claims seem to contradict -- among others -- the head of the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Max Mayfield, who said on Face the Nation yesterday that the hurricanes can be explained "without invoking global warning." Not to pile on but in Sunday's New York Times (not generally a Conservative rag), Donald G. McNeil, Jr, in an op-ed in the "Week in Review" section echoes Mayfield's point, noting that hurricanes happen in "a cycle that oscillates in decades."
Still, mark our words: Barbra's weighing in with a totally uninformed comment will of course garner more attention than that of any -- dare we say?-- informed scientist.
If only those scientists could sing -- like butta.
Barbara (Bull) Streisand (Sh!t)
If she did not have all her money and could not sing, she would be a nobody in Long Island.
Streisand is having an adverse effect on my neighbor's dog, too.
http://politicaltherapy.blogspot.com/2005/09/truth-alert-global-warming-makes-me.html
Barbra Streisand, Climatologist
***Barbra Streisand, IDIOT***
Streisand is a charter member of a club of ill-educated Hollywood nitwits whose members also include Martin Sheen, Sean Penn, et al. The true hallmark of an ignorant person is that he really doesn't know how little he knows. Why is it newsworthy that such idiotic notions are given so much attention? We'd just as well go to a school for the retarded as ask one of the pupils for his views on quantum physics. But then again, the pupil might be intelligent enough to mumble, "don't know".
That pic is hilarious.
Streisand should pave her a$s with solar-absorbing materials, and capture a big chunk of global warming.
Awww, she could get by on her "jawdropping" beauty.
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