For the better part of a week now, Matt Drudge has been promoting Sports Illustrated’s not-very-rigorous contemplation of global warming/climate change:
If nothing else, this should count as an example of the fact that while Drudge himself is a conservatarian of some stripe, his instinct to overhype is not limited by ideology. But when you start talking gloom and doom and Sports Illustrated, there’s really only one way to turn:
And there’s more to it than that. In fact, the global warming story and the definitive meditation on the “SI Jinx” were both written by frequent SI contributor Alexander Wolff. Just one question remains: What does this mean? Does the SI Jinx apply to global warming, thus signifying happy days ahead? Or to planet Earth, signifying a cloudier future than Ron Artest’s?
One thing we know for sure is that when the subject is sports*, never trust Matt Drudge — a lesson SI itself could learn.
*Not unlike other subjects.
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