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This thing reads like an Onion article!
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-talk-jose-canseco-titanic-0417-20120416,0,4101059.story
Global warming could have saved the Titanic. So says no less an authority on climatological and maritime disasters than Jose Canseco, erstwhile baseball slugger, steroid whistle blower and latter-day Twitter savant.
Canseco espoused his theory in a sea of stream-of-consciousness tweets over the weekend. Sunday marked the 100th anniversary of the day the supposedly unsinkable ship sank in the frigid Atlantic, claiming more than 1,500 lives after it struck an iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland.
"Titanic 100 years wOw. Global warming couldve saved titanic. Sad to say," came Canseco's first message on the topic, before he elaborated via the @JoseCanseco account.
"Because we don't recycle and consume like crazy icicles are non existent. Titanic wouldve still existed today."
After fellow Twitter users seemed to challenge his theory, Canseco grew defensive.
"You clowns it's very simple. With global warning the weather is hotter so the icebergs would be melted and titanic saved.
"100 years ago people actually cared about planet and respected nature. Now we can care less and consume energy like it's free."
While glacial melting and rising sea levels are often attributed to climate change, higher temperatures have not left the seas ice-free. In 2010, for instance, an ice chunk four times the size of Manhattan broke off a glacier near Greenland, in what scientists said may have been the second-largest breakaway ever.
Undaunted, the 47-year-old Canseco grew nostalgic, tweeting how the Titanic tragedy hit home for him.
"Titanic reminds me of the days I had two yachts in Miami but no icicles.
"I had a bat I named Titanic. It was biggest rawlings ever made and beautiful and unbreakable dont know where Titanic is now."
Canseco, a star alongside Mark McGwire on the Oakland A's teams of the 1980s, last played in the majors in 2001, for the White Sox. In the decade since, he's blown the lid off the use of steroids in the game, bounced around independent baseball leagues, appeared in reality TV shows and even tried his hand at ultimate fighting.
More than 20 years past his heyday, Canseco still seems to thirst for the limelight. Amid discussing his Titanic theory, he also tweeted that he'd like to host "Saturday Night Live."
"Would love to host SNL and would donate pay to greenpeace. Does anyone know how to contact Lorne Greene ? Please help me make it happen! Hugs."
Perhaps he was thinking of "Saturday Night Live" creator and executive producer Lorne Michaels. Actor Lorne Greene, of "Bonanza" fame, died in 1987.
rmanker@tribune.com
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-talk-jose-canseco-titanic-0417-20120416,0,4101059.story
Global warming could have saved the Titanic. So says no less an authority on climatological and maritime disasters than Jose Canseco, erstwhile baseball slugger, steroid whistle blower and latter-day Twitter savant.
Canseco espoused his theory in a sea of stream-of-consciousness tweets over the weekend. Sunday marked the 100th anniversary of the day the supposedly unsinkable ship sank in the frigid Atlantic, claiming more than 1,500 lives after it struck an iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland.
"Titanic 100 years wOw. Global warming couldve saved titanic. Sad to say," came Canseco's first message on the topic, before he elaborated via the @JoseCanseco account.
"Because we don't recycle and consume like crazy icicles are non existent. Titanic wouldve still existed today."
After fellow Twitter users seemed to challenge his theory, Canseco grew defensive.
"You clowns it's very simple. With global warning the weather is hotter so the icebergs would be melted and titanic saved.
"100 years ago people actually cared about planet and respected nature. Now we can care less and consume energy like it's free."
While glacial melting and rising sea levels are often attributed to climate change, higher temperatures have not left the seas ice-free. In 2010, for instance, an ice chunk four times the size of Manhattan broke off a glacier near Greenland, in what scientists said may have been the second-largest breakaway ever.
Undaunted, the 47-year-old Canseco grew nostalgic, tweeting how the Titanic tragedy hit home for him.
"Titanic reminds me of the days I had two yachts in Miami but no icicles.
"I had a bat I named Titanic. It was biggest rawlings ever made and beautiful and unbreakable dont know where Titanic is now."
Canseco, a star alongside Mark McGwire on the Oakland A's teams of the 1980s, last played in the majors in 2001, for the White Sox. In the decade since, he's blown the lid off the use of steroids in the game, bounced around independent baseball leagues, appeared in reality TV shows and even tried his hand at ultimate fighting.
More than 20 years past his heyday, Canseco still seems to thirst for the limelight. Amid discussing his Titanic theory, he also tweeted that he'd like to host "Saturday Night Live."
"Would love to host SNL and would donate pay to greenpeace. Does anyone know how to contact Lorne Greene ? Please help me make it happen! Hugs."
Perhaps he was thinking of "Saturday Night Live" creator and executive producer Lorne Michaels. Actor Lorne Greene, of "Bonanza" fame, died in 1987.
rmanker@tribune.com
