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STREISAND IN HEATED ARGUMENT OVER 'GLOBAL WARMING'

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SingerProducerActivist Barbra Streisand recently warned: "The snows on top of Mount Kilimanjaro are melting."

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Former Bush speechwriter David Frum details his showdown with citizen Streisand in his new book THE RIGHT MAN, hitting racks Tuesday.

"So tell me: Why did Bush flip-flop on emissions standards?" Streisand asked Frum during a heated argument about Global Warming at a gathering on the eve of the Kyoto repudiation.

"I know why he did it," she continued. "It was because of all the campaign contributions he got from Enron."

When Streisand learned what Frum did for a living, she released a disdainful "Ewwwwwww."

'"The snows on top of Mount Kilimanjaro are melting. There's no disagreement about that," Streisand argued.

Frum: "Look, I don't know about that. I'm no kind of expert on climate change. But, Miss Streisand, I strongly suspect that neither are you. For you, this is religion, not science."

Streisand looked at Frum with "utter revulsion."

"I know what I'm talking about. I give a lot of money to environmental causes," she huffed and left Frum standing.

-- Anonymous, January 06, 2003

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IMHO, Blabs is right, for once in her life.

-- Anonymous, January 07, 2003

That Bush kissed Enron's butt or that Kilimanjaro is losing it's snowcap? The latter is true, absolutely, I'm not convinced of the former. Just because she gives a lot of money to environmentla causes doesn't make her an expert.

I have long been convinced that global warming is a fact, based on what I know of the changes in flora, fauna and climate in the microcosmic small area of the British Isles. I don't think man is as much to blame as people like Streisand claim. Having said that, I do wish there had been greater advances in nonpolluting energy (such as the car BrookS drives, solar, wind) because I don't like at all what acid rain and oil spills do to the planet.

-- Anonymous, January 07, 2003

OG, (1) I think human activity has a great deal to do with global warming, and (2) I also believe that Bush's 180 (his position during the campaign, vs. now) is to mollify the energy companies. His change in policy was supposedly because he was made acquainted with "better science." There have been repeated efforts to find out who promoted this "better science", to get names of people, but this has been guarded by the Administration like a military secret.

-- Anonymous, January 07, 2003

I'm glad we have Jeb to keep George from drilling along Florida's coast.

-- Anonymous, January 08, 2003