While the first part of this BigWig entry may be a little dense, the second part, wherein he describes the usefulness of calling global warming "The Rapture for secular humanists" in separating wheat from chaff, is damned amusing. And true. Every time someone pitches a hissy about global warming I nod and say, "wow, yeah, that sounds pretty bad. How long is it going to take to happen?" For years the answer (decades if not centuries) had me nodding my head and casting about for a tighter fitting foil hat.

Of course, nowadays we have all sorts of new and improved forecasts of, well, rapturous destruction which could take place in a far more news-cycle-friendly few years or even days. Which would be worrying, if their initial science hadn't been so horribly bad.

Which is not to say I don't completely disagree with all of the global warming Chicken Littles' agenda. Far from it. "Green" power sources help stop carbon getting in the atmosphere, a plus for them, while also denying Islamic wackamoles and friendly communist Stalinist Maoist socialist Latin neighbors the money they need to make trouble, a big plus for me.

Of course, since we all know what the ultimate agenda of most hard-line greens really is, you won't see me showing up at any of their rallies any time soon. Call it an arms-length friendship. "The enemy of my enemy," that sort of thing.

I wonder if that marks me down for a high-quality beer?