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Sometimes, Ya Gotta Swing at that Meatball

I know I haven’t been posting much lately, but it doesn’t mean that I haven’t been reading.

And while I’ve been reading, there have been several things that I’ve wanted to comment on, but time is short and I have to ration it.

Every once in a while, though, there comes a post so good, that I can’t help but comment.

Nay, not only comment, but give it a proper beatdown.

First of all, Pete starts his post with the following assertion:

A record 102 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the Missoulian, breaking the old record by five degrees.

Hot enough for all you neocon naysayers, Libertarian hacks and corporate whores who deny global warming?

That’s the way to start an honest dialog about . . . Wait, what?

Haven’t we anthropogenic global warming skeptics been harangued for ages that weather is not climate?

I guess it’s been amended to “weather is not climate only if it’s colder than usual, not hotter.”

To Pete’s credit, he does sort of admit that weather isn’t climate, but then goes on to use a whole boatload of examples about the weather to bolster his point that it is, indeed, climate.

[Ace Ventura]Alrighty, then![/Ace Ventura]

The next part, though, is possibly the best unintentional irony I have ever read on the intarwebs:

I know I should be doing more about it, personally. Riding my bike (I did that yesterday and started sweating like a pig in a down jacket). Being more energy efficient at home. Traveling less for business and pleasure – that one’s really going to hurt. And the list goes on.

But where’s the national mandate? I’m going to need a little help here since, like most Americans, I don’t want to radically change my lifestyle.

Geddit? Pete is a true believer in anthropogenic climate change, but instead of “thinking globally and acting locally” to set an example for the proletariat, he wants a government mandate to get his own ass in gear to “do the right thing.” He doesn’t want to do anything about it hissownself. But, he does want the government to mandate that change for the rest of us.

If the true believers aren’t willing to make the necessary sacrifice on their own accord, what makes them think that everyone else should?