What with the revelations of the rigged data over the last month, do you feel as embarrassed as those jackasses who commented here for months about John Edwards before he was caught?

Probably not.

But you’re not the only one who has an education. There are those who are just as–or more–educated than you and disagree with you. The difference is: we don’t look down on you, your background, your education or your viewpoint. And most importantly, we don’t ask you to fund our viewpoint with your dollars.

We just disagree.

Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment.
And thanks to the Watertown area folks for your comments too.

Maybe you know what you’re talking about, but you don’t have to undermine everyone’s intelligence. You’re not better than everyone else, just so you know. Let’s be mature adults here, please.

And maybe you should some time living through Watertown winters before you make any judgments.

Let’s try explaining this in small words so the undereducated can understand. See, there is a difference between weather and climate. Global climate change is threfore not at all like global weather change. Weather is what occurs today, this week or this year. Climate is what persists for decades, centuries and thousands of years So, this year there can and are wet and dry regions, hot and cold seasons. Climate change, on the other hand involve permanent alternations in things like the ice caps, average temperature and rainfall, disappearances in glaciers, melting of Greenland and the release of the greenhouse gas methane trapped there for eons. Once that methane is released, there is no way to unscramble the omelet no matter how much carbon emissions are capped. We can no longer stop the process,, only slow and delay it (perhaps) before sea levels flood all the world’s coastal cities and ultimately make the planet uninhabitably hot. Reactionaries are betting they are dead before this happens, and political leaders hope they won’t be prosecuted for crimes against mankind. So, maybe anti-Kyoto types are correct, if for all the wrong reasons. Eat, drink, and be merry may indeed be the proper policy now that we allowed the planet to go down the drain.

But don’t you think they should at least start building spaceships? On second thought, no, because these neanderthals should be the last people allowed to repopulate elsewhere. They have demonstrated a lack of survival instinct critical for interplanetary natural selection, don’t you agree?