Here we go...
Eric Zorn, Chicago TribuneEvery time there's a big blizzard or an extended cold snap, you can count on the climate-change skeptics, particularly those who host radio shows or draw editorial cartoons, to make "Inconvenient Truth" jokes and rehash an ironic appeal for more global warming.
Such wags go completely silent when we're clobbered by a heat wave, as we are being clobbered this weekend. Which, while inconsistent, is appropriate. Weather is not climate. Temperatures and precipitation levels are always going to exhibit dramatic swings.
Consulting today's thermometer for evidence either way about climate trends is ""like assessing how the economy is doing by looking at the change in your pocket," said a Columbia University professor quoted last month in the New York Times.
You knew this was going to happen, we have a warm summer (as was predicted because of the recent increased solar activity) and all the Chicken Littles in the mainstream press are running around screaming "The Globe Is Warming! The Globe Is Warming!"
Eric, you're right, it is hot out there, so I am officially changing my position, as of now I am for Global Cooling!
Of course this happens to me almost every August and in September I probably will be more neutral on the issue, but by January I'm pretty sure I'll be rooting for Global Warming again.
Leave a comment