Who are YOU to Say That?

Getting agreement on big questions has become ever harder because we either put our trust in science or insist that everyone’s opinion is equal to everyone else’s. That might not be quite true.

For example, in a tweet last Spring, Donald Trump threw out this witticism: “In New York, March was the coldest month in recorded history - we could use some GLOBAL WARMING!” 

The capital letters and exclamation point are his, so sure is he of his deep insight that he must shout it out to the world. 

Oh, Donald. As soon as the temperature hits freezing, we hear with the regularity of an atomic clock from Trump and his ilk cries of indignation that global warming must be a farce. After all, how could the world be warming if freezing temperatures are gripping most of the nation? Likewise, every winter we see newspaper editors across the country trot out the old and tired cartoon of the global warming group meeting cancelled due to snow and ice.

A laugh riot no?, and it would be funny if not so sad a barometer of the gross ignorance that endangers our planet.