It's a freakin' revival...

... in the Church of Chicken Little and the histrionics are reaching a fever pitch.

Seriously.

First it's Jennifer Garner:

Jennifer has also confessed she cries more now she is a mother. The actress believes the experience has made her more caring.

She said: "Since I became a mother, I cry more because I care about things more.

"I can't watch a movie where something happens to a child. And I've always cared about global warming and breast cancer, but now there seems to be an urgency about them."

So, the implication is that global warming makes Jennifer cry, on a par with breast cancer. 

No kidding.

I'm... speechless... especially after finding that crying, like a good yawn, appears to be infectious:

In recent years, the TED conference has gained a reputation for blissfully big ideas buoyed by unrelenting optimism. So few conference goers were prepared for venture capitalist John Doerr to choke up with emotion as he kicked off the second day of talks on Mar. 9.

"I'm scared," he told the audience, looking down at his 15-year-old daughter in the front row. "I don't think we're going to make it."

Doerr issued a passionate call to action for everyone to make environmental concerns their "next big thing." As one of several positive examples, he praised Wal-Mart for making great moves to address what he called the three largest energy drains in business—heating and cooling systems, lighting, and refrigeration. The giant's initiative forced its 60,000 suppliers to focus on environmental issues as well, he said.

"Going green is the largest economic opportunity of the 21st century," said Doerr, who through his venture firm's Greentech initiative is investing in the sector. Although much attention has been focused on fighting global warming, Doerr offered a bleak assessment of these efforts. "I'm afraid it's not enough," he said.

No, it's not enough... and enough people are thinking the same... the sky is falling:

A Gallup Poll on global warming has some interesting data on poll respondents' attitudes toward the consequences of global warming, but this one piece of data stood out:

55% of all self-identified Democrats believe that "human life would cease to exist on Earth" as a result of global warming.

29% of independents had the same belief; 12% of Republicans shared this belief; while overall, 33% of the poll's respondents believed that global warming would extinguish life on Earth.

Tom Elia closes that post with one word.  Remarkable.

Indeed.

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[tim]

“55% of all self-identified Democrats believe that "human life would cease to exist on Earth" as a result of global warming.”

While I don’t advocate suicide, I may have to rethink that for these idiots.