In a small irony that illuminates the GIANT problem of climate change, the Seattle Times reported today that Forks, Washington, the setting for the Stephanie Meyers' "Twilight" vampire and teen angst book and movie series, is facing emergency water restrictions. Meyers chose Forks, on the northwest corner of the Olympic Peninsula adjacent to a rain forest, because she wanted to set her books someplace "ridiculously rainy." But this year's dry summer has put the city's wells at critical levels, and so there's to be no lawn-watering, car-washing or filling of swimming pools or hot tubs until rains come. City officials say it will take at least a couple of weeks of steady rain to replenish the local wells.
But there's no global warming happening, because TODAY it started raining in Seattle and the Olympic Peninsula. Go suck on that, shimmering global warming vampires!