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Has global warming overheated Bush's brain?
Dec. 5, 2005. 06:35 AM
LINWOOD BARCLAY, The Toronto Star

How could it be that President George W. Bush, whose country has been
plagued by murderously hot summers, melting glaciers up in Alaska, and
catastrophic hurricanes in the gulf states, is not the slightest bit
interested in tackling the problem of climate change?
This past week, in Montreal, there were delegates from all over the
world, meeting and discussing ways to stop global warming, or at the
very least, slowing the pace at which it is getting worse. And which
country wasn't interested in putting in its two cents' worth of
unleaded to find solutions? The United States.
For some time now, I've been puzzling over this one, this lack of
interest on Bush's part, and for awhile there I had it narrowed down to
four things:
a) He's not all that bright.
b) Whenever climate change comes up during the President's Daily Brief,
it's at the same time Dick Cheney does his Colin Powell impression
("Oh, gee, we better be careful!"), at which point everyone clutches
their sides and falls over laughing.
c) When people talk to him about this problem, all Bush hears is: "They
hate freedom, they hate freedom, they hate freedom."
d) All of the above.
And then I thought maybe Halliburton's got all these massive climate
change machines coming down the pipe, at $100 billion a crack, and when
we really need them, Cheney can broker a deal.
But that's just being cynical, and I'd hate to give the impression that
I'm cynical where the Bush administration is concerned.
Another theory is that George W. Bush is in fact himself a casualty of
climate change. We know that global warming can raise the average
temperature of the ocean by a degree or two, and that this creates a
breeding ground for absolutely insane Katrina-style hurricanes.
Well, what if a warmer climate has raised the average temperature of
Bush's brain by only one degree? Now, we already know that an extremely
high fever, even if it's only over a short period of time, can do
damage to the brain. What if a slight increase in temperature, over an
extended period, has the very same effect?
What if the inside of Bush's brain is spinning around like Dorothy's
house just before it crashes in Oz?
If Bush's brain has been altered by climate change, he may be unable to
fathom the fact that a change in the climate is responsible. And if
this is the case, he deserves our sympathy, not scorn. In fact, he
deserves more than our sympathy. He deserves our help.
What we have to do now, before we can get the U.S. involved in tackling
the climate change problem, is we have to get Bush's brain temperature
down

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