Climate Change Provides Funny Little "Cognitive Dissonances"

Deadly Heat Wave in India

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.”

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