Modern day dinosaurs

Friday, 12:49 pm

By Kate

Jun

24

2005

I am not making any scientific declarations here, but our weather is weird. Coupla days ago it was cold. Today it is middlin’ hot. Tomorrow it will be 100 degrees. And then it will be mid-70s again. The mercury is all over the place. Is this the new model for climate? It’s like a temperature lottery. This kind of mercurial bouncing is not only stressful on human beings, but every other living thing as well.

But, of course, this couldn’t be related to any kind of climate change. Nooo. I like this quote from a speech by the President of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, given 3 years ago:

...some people, including some people of influence, would rather deny the realities than face up to them; and second, because there are some modern-day dinosaurs who are not prepared to evolve. These relics thrived under the old realities, and they think the key to their survival is persuading us that these old realities still hold. Instead, I think, they are hastening their own extinction.

How’s that for a smack upside the head? When God gave humans brains, he apparently didn’t make it clear enough that we were supposed to, you know, actually use them.