Nation's Snowmen March Against Global Warming | The Onion – America's Finest News Source

Posted on January 25th, 2006 by martijn.
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Nation’s Snowmen March Against Global Warming | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source

Yes it is getting colder, but don’t be put to sleep by that: global warming is on the rise. The therefore: March against global warming with the nation’s snowmen as an example.

January 25, 2006 | Issue 42•04

WASHINGTON, DC—Braving balmy temperatures and sunny skies, millions of scarfless snowmen and snowwomen gathered in cities across the world Tuesday to raise public awareness about the heavy toll global warming is taking on their health and well-being.
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Snowmen from across the nation gather at the Washington Monument to protest global warming.

According to organizers of marches in Washington, Atlanta, Montreal, Berlin, London, Reykjavik, and Moscow, global warming is the primary cause of the steep reduction in the snowman population throughout the Northern Hemisphere. Demonstrators worldwide called on their governments to take more aggressive steps to reduce the effects of climate change.

Organizers estimated the crowd at more than 375,000, but D.C. Police Commissioner Charles Stacey estimated turnout at 30,000 whole snowmen, with scattered rounded abdomens accounting for an additional 5,000. Atlanta organizers and police agree that all demonstrators had melted by 11 a.m.

Joe Centigrade, president of the Advocates For Beings Of Frozen Precipitation, spoke at a mass rally Tuesday on Washington’s National Mall.
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Nation’s Snowmen March Against Global Warming | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source

Posted on January 25th, 2006 by .
Categories: Joy Category.

Nation’s Snowmen March Against Global Warming | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source

Yes it is getting colder, but don’t be put to sleep by that: global warming is on the rise. The therefore: March against global warming with the nation’s snowmen as an example.

January 25, 2006 | Issue 42•04

WASHINGTON, DC—Braving balmy temperatures and sunny skies, millions of scarfless snowmen and snowwomen gathered in cities across the world Tuesday to raise public awareness about the heavy toll global warming is taking on their health and well-being.
Enlarge ImageNation’s Snowmen March Against Global Warming

Snowmen from across the nation gather at the Washington Monument to protest global warming.

According to organizers of marches in Washington, Atlanta, Montreal, Berlin, London, Reykjavik, and Moscow, global warming is the primary cause of the steep reduction in the snowman population throughout the Northern Hemisphere. Demonstrators worldwide called on their governments to take more aggressive steps to reduce the effects of climate change.

Organizers estimated the crowd at more than 375,000, but D.C. Police Commissioner Charles Stacey estimated turnout at 30,000 whole snowmen, with scattered rounded abdomens accounting for an additional 5,000. Atlanta organizers and police agree that all demonstrators had melted by 11 a.m.

Joe Centigrade, president of the Advocates For Beings Of Frozen Precipitation, spoke at a mass rally Tuesday on Washington’s National Mall.
(more…)

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