Hugh Betcha, Head of the Climate Change Bureau of the Stoos Views world wide media conglomerate, listened intently to the weather report this morning as he has for the past week. Today, January 4, 2010--five years away from the melting of the polar ice caps predicted by global warming expert, geothermal scientist, inventor of the internet and Almost President, Al Gore--it appeared that Gore's prediction had finally come true.
Checking his thermometer outside the Stoos Views World Headquarters in Wynstone, South Dakota--where the air is clean, crime is low, people vote red, and the centre still holds--Hugh noticed the ambient temperature was a balmy 24 below Fahrenheit--clear evidence that Global Warming had invaded the Midwest.