1.0 link 50109 <![CDATA[Of Idiocy and Optimal Climates]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-mooney/of-idiocy-and-optimal-cli_b_50109.html By now it's zinging around more or less everywhere. NASA administrator Michael Griffin made this mind-boggling statement to NPR:

I have no doubt that a trend of global warming exists. I am not sure that it is fair to say that it is a problem we must wrestle with.

To assume that it is a problem is to assume that the state of Earth's climate today is the optimal climate, the best climate that we could have or ever have had...
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