Regardless of your personal opinions, I was surprised.

[Kai]

Not by the content, but because I didn't know journalists could still DO perfect, cynical sarcasm.

Better to join with the U.S. House of Representatives, which voted 240 to 184 this spring to defeat a resolution saying simply that "climate change is occurring, is caused largely by human activities, and poses significant risks for public health and welfare." Propose your own physics; ignore physics altogether. Just don't start asking yourself whether there might be some relation among last year's failed grain harvest from the Russian heat wave, and Queensland's failed grain harvest from its record flood, and France's and Germany's current drought-related crop failures, and the death of the winter wheat crop in Texas, and the inability of Midwestern farmers to get corn planted in their sodden fields. Surely the record food prices are just freak outliers, not signs of anything systemic.

It's very important to stay calm. If you got upset about any of this, you might forget how important it is not to disrupt the record profits of our fossil fuel companies. If worst ever did come to worst, it's reassuring to remember what the U.S. Chamber of Commerce told the Environmental Protection Agency in a recent filing: that there's no need to worry because "populations can acclimatize to warmer climates via a range of behavioral, physiological, and technological adaptations." I'm pretty sure that's what residents are telling themselves in Joplin today.

Has almost the same tone of the stuff we regularly write around here, doesn't it?

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

 

[LMNO]

Puzzling that a reporter would be so on point... But after looking at the byline, I was comforted to know that this wasn't a journalist so much as an op-ed by a professor and activist.  Status quo is maintained.

[Kai]

Puzzling that a reporter would be so on point... But after looking at the byline, I was comforted to know that this wasn't a journalist so much as an op-ed by a professor and activist.  Status quo is maintained.

While that's true, it still somehow got published in the Post. I don't think I've ever seen writing like this in a newspaper, op-ed or not.

[AFK]

Either way it is awesome and we need moar!

[Adios]

Either way it is awesome and we need moar!

This.

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

You guys should invite that dude here.