Later On

Tom Friedman has a column today in which he takes on the denialist community. He begins:

Of the festivals of nonsense that periodically overtake American politics, surely the silliest is the argument that because Washington is having a particularly snowy winter it proves that climate change is a hoax and, therefore, we need not bother with all this girly-man stuff like renewable energy, solar panels and carbon taxes. Just drill, baby, drill.

When you see lawmakers like Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina tweeting that “it is going to keep snowing until Al Gore cries ‘uncle,’ ” or news that the grandchildren of Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma are building an igloo next to the Capitol with a big sign that says “Al Gore’s New Home,” you really wonder if we can have a serious discussion about the climate-energy issue anymore…

And what is driving this is the increasingly ominous signs of worldwide climate change, nicely summarized in this post specifically written as a illustrated reference for those who read Friedman’s column and clicked the link. In fact, the post at the link is must reading for any climate-change denier that’s willing to click a link. (Some are unwilling, so greatly do they treasure their fantasy.)