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Just because you may be able to surf a tropical storm, that doesn’t mean you should try to kiteboard it.

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From the friendly alarmists at Wired Magazine comes this terrifying scenario:

If losing the ice caps makes us uncomfortable [because of rising water], the hydrogen sulfide is going to make us extinct. In 500 years, I can see a world where everyone will be wearing gas masks. Those that [have] them will live; those that don’t will die.

If choking to death on an atmosphere that has essentially turned into the biggest, smelliest fart of all time doesn’t get you on the global warming bandwagon, what will?

I can’t think anywhere I’d rather be in a hurricane than 1,000 feet up.

In Bedford Hills, NY, a GPS system directed a driver onto railroad tracks, prompting a fiery crash. After the man got stuck on the tracks, “he tried to stop the train by waving his arms, which apparently was not totally effective in slowing the train,” says a Metro-North train spokesman.

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