Commentary
Writing in the Sunday Times of London about the official hand-wringing in Britain about a spell of hot weather this week, the acerbic British humorist Rod Liddle had this to say:
“They think we are all stupid now, too thick to look after ourselves, and so they treat us as if we were intellectually challenged children.”
Yet he also recognized an ulterior motive in such alarmism, since “it is perhaps also the case that because they have decided our warmer weather is caused by climate change—which I don’t doubt—everything that happens as a consequence must be bad, existentially threatening, to be deeply feared. And so a nice spell of sunshine is not to be welcomed, but is actually death, waving his big black scythe at us all, grinning like Jack Nicholson in ‘The Shining’ and telling us we should have listened.”…