GUILFORD-My brother recently spoke with a woman who insisted that global warming is all a hoax.
"It's not the Earth's atmosphere getting too warm due to man's emissions," she insisted. "The trouble is that the Earth is moving closer to the sun."
What an idiot! We all know that the planets don't jump out of their orbits. Obviously, what's happening is that the sun is moving closer to the Earth.
Wendy Ireland
Guilford
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