Great product for our favorite instigators!

MWC · 01-10-2006

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On the Bright Side, Coffee Will Never Get Cold

After global warming the disaster film ("The Day After Tomorrow") and global warming the comedy special ("Earth to America"), the next step was probably inevitable: global warming the coffee mug.

The mug is decorated with, naturally, a heat-sensitive world map. When it's filled with a steaming beverage, the shorelines retreat, reflecting an extreme version of what scientists say will happen as melting ice and warming water raise sea levels.

Groups with different views on warming have come up with similarly quirky tools to spread their views. In December, the National Center for Public Policy Research distributed rolls of toilet paper at climate-treaty talks in Montreal printed with the phrase "emissions credit" in five languages - reflecting what it claimed is the value of such credits, which are earned by cutting greenhouse gases linked to warming.

The online pitch by the mug's purveyor, a Brooklyn-based novelty company called the Unemployed Philosophers Guild, is a bit bleak: "Have you wondered what the world would look like after the polar ice caps melt? Now see it over a cup of coffee."

Nonetheless, it's been selling briskly, with about 25,000 bought last year, said David Shaw, who designed the mug and runs the company with his brother, Stephan, the unemployed philosopher who started the business in the early 1990's.

They've received a few requests for corrections, like an e-mail message that came in last Thursday noting that the Aral Sea would never fill up because its elevation is far too high.

"We said we'll try to adjust it in a few places," Mr. Shaw said.

Daddy B · 01-10-2006

I couldn't, tea would never taste the same again... besides I will soon be moving to Playa, so I need to get rid of stuff, not acummulate more...

Rissask · 01-10-2006

Cool mug! hee hee

Daddy B- you are moving to PDC?!! Lucky man.

Daddy B · 01-10-2006

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Originally Posted by Rissask

Cool mug! hee hee

Daddy B- you are moving to PDC?!! Lucky man.

If I don't do it now, I'd have to wait for retirement and I can't face that...

01-10-2006	#1 (permalink)
MWC añejo Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Connecticut Posts: 5,843	Great product for our favorite instigators! http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/10/science/10find.html http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/...ind184.196.jpg On the Bright Side, Coffee Will Never Get Cold After global warming the disaster film ("The Day After Tomorrow") and global warming the comedy special ("Earth to America"), the next step was probably inevitable: global warming the coffee mug. The mug is decorated with, naturally, a heat-sensitive world map. When it's filled with a steaming beverage, the shorelines retreat, reflecting an extreme version of what scientists say will happen as melting ice and warming water raise sea levels. Groups with different views on warming have come up with similarly quirky tools to spread their views. In December, the National Center for Public Policy Research distributed rolls of toilet paper at climate-treaty talks in Montreal printed with the phrase "emissions credit" in five languages - reflecting what it claimed is the value of such credits, which are earned by cutting greenhouse gases linked to warming. The online pitch by the mug's purveyor, a Brooklyn-based novelty company called the Unemployed Philosophers Guild, is a bit bleak: "Have you wondered what the world would look like after the polar ice caps melt? Now see it over a cup of coffee." Nonetheless, it's been selling briskly, with about 25,000 bought last year, said David Shaw, who designed the mug and runs the company with his brother, Stephan, the unemployed philosopher who started the business in the early 1990's. They've received a few requests for corrections, like an e-mail message that came in last Thursday noting that the Aral Sea would never fill up because its elevation is far too high. "We said we'll try to adjust it in a few places," Mr. Shaw said.

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01-10-2006	#2 (permalink)
Daddy B añejo Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: 10 minutes walk from the Caribbean Posts: 8,995	I couldn't, tea would never taste the same again... besides I will soon be moving to Playa, so I need to get rid of stuff, not acummulate more...

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Rissask Brit basher Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada Posts: 18,418	Cool mug! hee hee Daddy B- you are moving to PDC?!! Lucky man.

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