Climate Change Provides Funny Little "Cognitive Dissonances"

On the one hand, you have the fact that the first half of 2015 is by far the hottest January-June on record, and that the total year is almost certain to beat 2014 as the previous hottest total 12-month year since records began to be kept in the 1880s.

On the other hand, we Americans re-elect U.S. senator James Inhofe (R-OK, now the chair of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works) shown here displaying a snowball as proof that global warming is a hoax.

What to make of this dissonance? How about:  “Stupid is as stupid does,” a classic line from the popular American movie “Forrest Gump.”