Idiot Wind

With a storm the Weather Channel named for Mr. Spock's people about to bring two feet of snow to upstate New York and northern New England and severe thunderstorms from Philadelphia to Charlotte - and some heavy rain in the New York City area, followed by bitterly cold winds with tropical storm-force gusts after a mild two-day period in the Big Apple -  it's hard to deny climate change, although James Inhofe will keep on doing it.  His campaign contributors pay him well enough for him to do so.

Be that as it may, more than two dozen U.S. Senators (not including Inhofe, of course) recent took to the Senate floor for a late-night marathon of speeches and how something ought to be done about it . . . even though nothing will be done about it.

The senators who staged this piece of Washington theater insist that it could produce some action on climate change, maybe just a little bit, or at least greater acknowledgement of the problem.  But if they believe any of that, then they really are blowing hot air.