from Truthdig:
Hey, Dummy: Climate Change Is RealPosted on Feb 18, 2010
By Eugene Robinson
We’re the nation that put a man on the moon, so we can’t be stupid. We’re just pretending, right? We’re not really taking seriously the “argument” that the big snowstorms that have hit the Northeast in recent weeks constitute evidence—or even proof—that climate change is some kind of hoax.
That would be unbelievably dumb. Yet there are elected officials in Washington who apparently believe such nonsense. Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., had his family build an igloo near the Capitol and label it “Al Gore’s New Home.” Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., boasted on Twitter that the snows would continue “until Al Gore cries uncle.” Talking heads are seriously debating whether the record snowstorms doom the prospects for comprehensive legislation to deal with energy policy and climate change, which is one of President Barack Obama’s top priorities.
It is true that Washington is slogging through its snowiest winter on record. Before I could bring in the newspaper Thursday morning I had to dress for a mountain-climbing expedition because my front yard resembles a small glacier. My commute to the office normally takes 20 minutes; it took more than an hour, as I fought my way through streets whose outside lanes have been encroached by huge snowbanks.
But that was nothing compared with Tuesday morning, when I awoke to find that a snowplow had blocked my car into the driveway with a two-foot berm of ice. I had an early appointment, so I had to shovel my way out—before coffee. I’m afraid that the first thing my neighbors heard that morning was some unneighborly language. ............(more)
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http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/hey_dummy_climate_change_is_real_20100218/?ln
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