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August 15, 2007

Hackiness is a Warm Global

by AltHippo @ 2:00 pm. Filed under energy&environment

And other adventures of the right.

Mikey Gerson, age 5: (emphasis mine)

There are lessons here in the controversy over global warming. The debate is less and less about the existence of the problem itself. A consensus has hardened and broadened that global temperatures are increasing, that humans have contributed to the rise and that this is eventually a bad thing for the planet — views held by the environmental movement and publicly affirmed by the current president. The differences come on whether these environmental changes are likely to be gradual and manageable or swift and apocalyptic. Here, the scientific computer simulations are complex and speculative, and their conclusions are sometimes wildly overplayed.

Hysteria on the environment is a liberal temptation. Prudence, however, remains a conservative virtue, and it requires the issue of warming to be addressed.

Here I’ll start by noting that taking credit for speeches that others wrote is a conservative temptation. Creativity and disdain for stealing others’ ideas, however, remain progressive virtues.

For those of you who have been to this humble website before, you may have noticed that I never write about, for example: Chinese discotheques, the 9th hole at Augusta, or what it’s like to bed Paris Hilton. And, for a good reason. I know nothing about these things. Writing about them does nothing but disservice to readers (as if), since I am telling them nothing that is true except in the twice-a-day stopped watch sense.

Oh, and in related news, the Washington Post has asked me for a special op-ed on what it’s like to disco with Paris Hilton at the ninth hole of a Chinese golf course. I’ll let you know when it’s published.

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One Response to “Hackiness is a Warm Global”

  1. KathyF Says:
    August 16th, 2007 at 3:57 am

    Hysteria on terrorism remains a conservative temptation. (Love that internal alliteration!) Sanity, however, remains a liberal virtue.

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