Scripting News: The climate will kill you

Sunday October 4, 2026; 9:54 AM EDT

Great scene from The West Wing.#
CJ and Josh, on the street outside the White House.#
The president was hiding serious disease, and it’s about to come out. Back in those days such a revelation meant the president has no chance of being re-elected. #
Anyway, the kid has an idea and starts explaining, and as he does CJ laughs. The kid asks what’s so funny. #
She tells him about a scene in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid starring Paul Newman as Butch and Robert Redford as the kid.#
They’re cornered, on a cliff, preparing to jump into a river far below. Redford says he can’t swim. Newman says it doesn’t matter, the fall is going to kill you.#
Okay so why mention this now?#
I hear there’s a monster heat wave in California. Over 90F every day for two weeks. That’s unusual for October IIRC.#
We’re all fretting about AI killing us.#
Imagine CJ laughing. Haha she says, so you’re worried about AI are ya? It’s the climate that’s going to kill you.#
Josh would correct her. “Us. It’s going to kill us.”#
CJ tells him to go away she needs to be an adult right now.#

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