On Friday NewMexiKen put this headline on an entry about what people think about global warming/climate change: I believe. I believe. Even though it’s silly I believe.
The line is taken from the little girl Susan (Natalie Wood in the original) in Miracle on 34th Street. My misuse of it was an attempt to say, “Hey, it really doesn’t matter what the public thinks.” As Byron, one of two official sons-in-law of NewMexiKen, said to me, “A politically popular opinion doesn’t make it correct.” Precisely.
The climate is changing. The climate is always changing. NewMexiKen’s opinion is that we’d better find out what, if anything, we might do about it, and what, if anything, we should do to prepare for it. If there is a consensus among serious scientists, that’s good enough for me. Can’t the news media report that and quit with the man-on-the-street nonsense?
I remember what Bush the Elder had to say about global warming.
To paraphrase he said that since we didn’t know if humanity was causing it we should err on the side of caution and continue to pollute with impunity. We couldn’t risk slowing down the economy.