WHY GLOBAL WARMING IS GREAT NEWS!
Thursday, October 1, 2009 at 09:20AM 
Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara warned on Wednesday the 2016 Olympics could be the last Games, with global warming an immediate threat to mankind.
Tokyo is bidding to host the 2016 summer Olympics with Chicago, Rio de Janeiro and Madrid also in the running. The International Olympic Committee will elect the winning candidate during its session on Oct. 2 in the Danish capital.
"It could be that the 2016 Games are the last Olympics in the history of mankind," Ishihara told reporters at a Tokyo 2016 press event ahead of the vote. "Global warming is getting worse. We have to come up with measures without which Olympic Games could not last long.
Fair enough. Let's cancel this four yearly grotesquerie to save the planet. Not only that but think of all the drug cheats that can then move on to alternative forms of employment.
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Reader Comments (5)
The only way global warming will stop the Olympics is if they are banned because of the ideology of global warming.
Shintaro Ishihara warned on Wednesday the 2016 Olympics could be the last Games, with global warming an immediate threat to mankind
These guys just won't stop. The extreme, over the top comments and predictions have just destroyed their argument in the public mind. No joke.
See you in 2016
Brilliant. No satirist can beat these people.
There must an awful lot of reasonable types who believe the AGW theory who read this kind of stuff and think "WILL YOU SHUT UP!!"
But of course they won't, because for a politician there is no statement too absurd if it advances government. I mean, look:
Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara warned on Wednesday the 2016 Olympics could be the last Games, with global warming an immediate threat to mankind.
A pint to the person who can direct me to a more ridiculous statement this week, the insane babbling of Gordon Brown included.
If he believed in this stuff, he would not be bidding on the Olympics in the first place.
An event with a really heavy carbon footprint one might think
"Two Pacific earthquakes in 48 hours - global warming penetrates earth's crust."
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