"Greenland" is named "Greenland" because the people who originally settled it knew it was covered in ice and that "Iceland" which is further north and were they eventually settled was kept rather warm and green due to its volcanic activity which produced natural hot springs. The idea was to name the first island people would arrive at Greenland even though it was covered in ice so people would look around and say "if this is what they consider green land, how bad must the island they call ice land be" causing them to turn around.
You'll never guess what initially inspired Al Gore's "temperature" mania - the one that's raised our tempers. Well, Gore is from Tennessee where you can hear Bible belt preachers warning about "Hell fire" in the next life. And Gore, concerned about this life, is surrounded by those who also know about the prediction in Revelation (chapter 16) of the coming time when a change in the sun will result in humans being "scorched with great heat"! It wouldn't be convenient if folks were to discover that Gore, a liberal, was influenced by the handbook closely associated with Christian fundamentalists! If Tennessee fundy preachers could look at the same predictions-packed apocalyptic book and stretch forward in time some future events, Gore could surely do the same thing and stretch forward the "great heat" and turn it into cold cash. All of us are well aware of the incredible influence that the Gore-orrhea plague has had on the whole world including the White House! But Gore's overlooked another Bible verse which says that "there is nothing hid that shall not be revealed." The real "inconvenient truth" is that the SS Al Gore is now stuck in ice - and what we need is a Gorebreaker!
"Greenland" is named "Greenland" because the people who originally settled it knew it was covered in ice and that "Iceland" which is further north and were they eventually settled was kept rather warm and green due to its volcanic activity which produced natural hot springs. The idea was to name the first island people would arrive at Greenland even though it was covered in ice so people would look around and say "if this is what they consider green land, how bad must the island they call ice land be" causing them to turn around.
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ReplyDeleteYou'll never guess what initially inspired Al Gore's "temperature" mania - the one that's raised our tempers.
Well, Gore is from Tennessee where you can hear Bible belt preachers warning about "Hell fire" in the next life.
And Gore, concerned about this life, is surrounded by those who also know about the prediction in Revelation (chapter 16) of the coming time when a change in the sun will result in humans being "scorched with great heat"!
It wouldn't be convenient if folks were to discover that Gore, a liberal, was influenced by the handbook closely associated with Christian fundamentalists!
If Tennessee fundy preachers could look at the same predictions-packed apocalyptic book and stretch forward in time some future events, Gore could surely do the same thing and stretch forward the "great heat" and turn it into cold cash.
All of us are well aware of the incredible influence that the Gore-orrhea plague has had on the whole world including the White House!
But Gore's overlooked another Bible verse which says that "there is nothing hid that shall not be revealed."
The real "inconvenient truth" is that the SS Al Gore is now stuck in ice - and what we need is a Gorebreaker!