All of this assumes that there will be a Republican Party

See David Brooks
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/30/opinion/30brooks.html?em

“House Republicans led the way and will get most of the blame. It has been interesting to watch them on their single-minded mission to destroy the Republican Party. Not long ago, they led an anti-immigration crusade that drove away Hispanic support. Then, too, they listened to the loudest and angriest voices in their party, oblivious to the complicated anxieties that lurk in most American minds.

Now they have once again confused talk radio with reality”

If we want to help, we should HELP, and not just make nicey-nice among environmentalists whose faith that reducing CO2 will reduce warming is unshakable by any facts. If you read some of the skeptics, they say “yes, there is warming, yes CO2 increases warming, but NO, all the catastrophe scenarios require a feedback which has never been seen in the past.”

I would have liked it if McCain hadn’t shown up at the last debate and the other presidential candidates did.

There should be some great comedy tonight…

I’ve been one of the last people to call Palin stupid. Or the McCain people, either. But they threw a Hail Mary with this one, and so far it’s no touchdown.

Still, one has to question McCain’s judgement in picking her, and hers for accepting the invite. What she should have said was “Thanks, but I’m not ready. I’ve only been on the job in Alaska for a couple years and I’m in no position to take over as president of the whole country. I have zero experience at the national and international levels, and that’s going to show under hard media scrutiny. Call me in four years and let’s see where we’re at then.”

Too bad Janet Napolitano isn’t a Republican. Shes smart, funny and has a pile of Good Sense. if McCain had picked her instead, they’d have kicked ass. Come to think of it, there must have been some Republican out there that could have done the job for McCain. Romney must be looking awful good by now.

North America’s face from the nose* upward has only been revealed by retreating ice in the last dozen or two thousand years. Humans have been in a position to contribute to that only in the last two hundred years or less.

On the other hand, we’ve done our damn best, and it’s hard to believe we’ve had zero effect.

As for what we can do to stop or reverse global warming, it only makes sense to stop contributing to it, as best we can. We should also have faith, regardless, that sometime in the next few dozen thousand years the trend will reverse, the Great Glacier will return, and your grave and mine will be plowed into Dixie.

*Lake Michigan