For a sixth grader

Thomas Friedman writes in the New York Times:

Of the festivals of nonsense that periodically overtake American politics, surely the silliest is the argument that because Washington is having a particularly snowy winter it proves that climate change is a hoax and, therefore, we need not bother with all this girly-man stuff like renewable energy, solar panels and carbon taxes. Just drill, baby, drill.

He's right in principle. One observation doesn't make a trend. Of course Phil Jones has said...