NOBODY SAYS IT BETTER THAN P.J.

PLEASE. I promise you, this is the best 1/2 hour you can spend:

http://taxingtennessee.blogspot.com/2009/12/extraordinary-speech-by-pj-orourke.html

climategate / Warmers

"I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives." Tolstoy

What I will NEVER understand is the enthusiasm people have for doom and gloom and disaster. I've lived through predictions of global cooling, overpopulation, wides-spread famine by the end of the 20th century, DDT ... and none of them panned out.

So why did the same people believe the same people and jump on the MMGW bandwagon? Man-made global warming has been nothing but a multi-billion dollar high school science project. And any of my kids' science teachers would have flunked Al Gore.

Three words, Al: SHOW YOUR WORK