Decades ago Bill Cosby recorded a short comedy routine about Seattle. In the opening

minute he noted that in Seattle, “It rains AT LEAST 365 days a year. When the sun comes out

the natives look up nervously, asking, ‘what did we DO?’”

Riding the tram into Disneyland a few weeks ago I listened to a young man trying to

impress his date by telling her that the scientific consensus on Global Warming was,

“unanimous.” Good place for a fantastical claim.

This is the Global Warming crowd. Ignorant of the weather – which no one really

understands, including the head of the Climatology Department at MIT, author of a

recent Op-Ed in which he debunked most of the GW crowd’s theories while admitting

that no one really knows but the evidence is contrary to the current popular mythology.

And the GW crowd, like the denizens of Cosby’s Seattle, walk around, looking at

perfectly normal weather – hurricanes, storms, hot summers and cold winters – look up at

the sky and say, “what did we DO?”

The knee-jerk response of these brainwashed masses? Sign a treaty to drop the overall

global temperature 0.4 degrees C over the next century and pretend it’ll fix what they

think is a problem.

Never mind that these same liberals are the ones yammering about wages for the poor

and that complying with this treaty will cost the economy of the world trillions of dollars,

making the poor even poorer.

Never mind that a technology that can limit whatever warming exists, technology from

which their favorite nation, France, gets about 78% of its power, that is, nuclear power

plants, is prevented from being exploited by this same crowd.

And, like the pre-scientific society of Cosby’s Seattle looking for an

explanation, and blaming everything they don’t like on the current President, the fact of

the US not signing the Kyoto Treaty somehow is the fault of President Bush.

The intelligent people in the debate remember that the language of the Kyoto treaty was

submitted to the US Senate for a vote when Gore was the President of the Senate and

Clinton the President of the country, and an advisory vote taken. Before the American

delegation to Kyoto left the US.

The result of that August, 1997 vote? 95-0 against the treaty. All Democrats joined all

Republicans in rejecting the treaty.

How this has morphed into Bush’s fault, how we have gotten to the point at which the

popular wisdom is that Democrats would have passed it and saved the world, is a

remarkable comment on the media and the education system of the US, both in thrall to

mythology, neither taking advantage of current science or knowledge.

For to believe that Bush is the reason we don’t have Kyoto is to be ignorant of recent

history, too stupid to Google the issue, and too in thrall to the Luddite mythology of the

Democrats to realize what is going on in the real world.

These willfully uninformed liberals ought to go read a book, educate themselves on the

issues of the day, or go home and stop talking, writing and – most of all - voting.

For they are not moving the society forward. They are looking up at the sky and asking,

in their total ignorance, “What did we DO?”