Nature Bats Last

     You could make an argument that human activity has no relationship to global climate change.  You could argue that global warming is a natural phenomenon.   You'd have a tough time convincing me, but I would listen to the arguments and treat them with some respect.

     On the other hand, if you said global warming was a hoax, I'd know you were delusional.  The data is there.  The glaciers are melting.  The oceans are rising.  The Greenland ice cap is receding.  Yearly temperature averages are climbing. These are cold hard facts.

   

     Republican Congressman Darrell Issa, soon to be in charge of the Oversight Committee in the House, questions the whole idea of global warming.  He's planning to hold hearings on the issue.  Mr. Issa can hold all the hearings he wants--he can deny reality, but he can't change it.

     The same Republicans who keep warning us about what the deficit will do to our grandchildren seem bent on leaving them a blighted and uninhabitable world.  What a mess we have gotten ourselves into.  We have put the inmates in charge.