Parody is so pre-9/11 3

I can't do much to improve on the humor of the two lead paragraphs in this AP piece:

The head of the Environmental Protection Agency said Monday the growth of greenhouse gases by less than 1 percent in 2005 shows the administration's program to address global warming "is delivering real results." The pronouncement by EPA Administrator Dave Johnson brought a quick response from some environmentalists.

"Things have come to a pretty sad state of affairs when the EPA tries to spin increased greenhouse gas emissions as a victory," said Frank O'Donnell, president of Clean Air Watch, an environmental advocacy group.

"Environmentalists," you see, view a continuing rise in greenhouse-gas emissions as less than a triumph for Bush's climate-change policies. Not, say, "awake people," or "non-retarded people." Just "environmentalists."

More on this issue here.

(via TP)

David Roberts is staff writer for Grist. You can follow his Twitter feed at twitter.com/drgrist.

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  1. Smaug Posted 10:39 am
    16 Apr 2007

    come again, AP?EPA Administrator Dave Johnson?

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  2. pjfinn Posted 12:35 pm
    16 Apr 2007

    A real laugherYes indeed -- I'm about to laugh myself sick...

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    JMG Posted 3:31 pm
    16 Apr 2007

    Well, in W's defense ...he figures it's ok because growth was more than 1%, so that means the earth got that much bigger too, right?

    "An optimist is someone who thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist is someone who is afraid that the optimist is right."

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