Pageant News Bureau - Florida USA 2008

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Miss Florida USA 2008

Photos by Paul Fong / PNB

Miss Florida USA 2008, Jessica Rafalowski

"You people are all gloom and doom," said a PNB critic. "Sure, global warming may be a problem, but it's all you think about."

Guilty. We can't get the big mercury rise off our feverish brains. But we don't want to be the wet blankets of the pageant world (even if our blankets are soaked in sweat).

Miranda Weber, the third runner-up

Michelle Piwko - Top 15

Jessica Rafalowski

Rachel Rose, the fourth runner-up

Yazmin Navarro, the second runner-up

Erin McKinnon - Top 15

So let's look on the bright side. As global warming settles in, the world could become one big Miss Florida USA Pageant. And that might be a decent tradeoff for the melting of the permafrost.

Paul Fong's scenes from the pageant show the contestants, including winner Jessica Rafalowski, in their global warming outfits -- bikinis. It's a heat wave of beauty.

Ok, Florida is a greenhouse, but these flowers are so lovely. We'll fret about the future lately.

Photo at right: Johanna Torres - The first runner-up and Miss Photogenic, with Miss Florida USA 2007, Jenna Edwards

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