That's pretty cool that you and the president have both herd of the flat earth society.. In his big speech on climate change last month, President Obama mocked Republicans who deny the existence of man-made global warming by derisively referring to them as members of “the Flat Earth Society.”
“We don’t have time for a meeting of the Flat Earth Society,” Obama said. “Sticking your head in the sand might make you feel safer, but it’s not going to protect you from the coming storm.”
As it turns out, there is a real Flat Earth Society and its president just like you and Obama thinks that anthropogenic climate change is real. In an email, president Daniel Shenton said that while he “can’t speak for the Society as a whole regarding climate change,” he personally thinks the evidence suggests fossil fuel usage is contributing to global warming.
“I accept that climate change is a process which has been ongoing since beginning of detectable history, but there seems to be a definite correlation between the recent increase in world-wide temperatures and man’s entry into the industrial age,” he said. “If it’s a coincidence, it’s quite a remarkable one. We may have experienced a temperature increase even without our use of fossil fuels since the Industrial Revolution, but I doubt it would be as dramatic as what we’re seeing now.”
As for Obama’s dig at his group, which indeed thinks the world is flat, Shenton said he’s not surprised and doesn’t take it personally.
EXTREME WEATHER, it has nothing to do with climate change
To think that it does is akin to, in the president’s and your words, being part of the Flat Earth Society. And unlike when you, the president, and now Daniel Shenton said it, when I say it, it's true.
