Thursday, April 14, 2011

Walter Russell Mead Sends Good News from Brazil

...on the environment, of all subjects.  The Brazilians are making great strides in food production.

And it turns out the Patagonian sheep are not going blind from the hole in the ozone layer.  Whew!

But this lengthy quote is just too good to pass up,

"I actually continue to believe that the climate is indeed trending warmer, and lacking the scientific chops to challenge the climatologists at their own game, I accept as a working hypothesis that increased greenhouse gases emitted as byproducts of human activity bears some responsibility for the change.

"But that is cold comfort indeed when every week brings new evidence that the clueless green lobby (despite the intelligence and even wisdom found among some serious environmentalists) is not only its own worst enemy, its policy incompetence combined with its demagogic panic mongering makes it a menace to global well-being.  If climate change proceeds far enough to cause serious problems, future historians are likely to assign much of the blame to this generation of incompetent green policy hacks, hot headed alarmists, woolly-headed ego trippers..., clueless foundation staff and direct mail scaremongers who between them have muddied the waters of the climate debate and wasted precious years and resources."

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