BRATTLEBORO — First off, kudos to The Commons and its excellent editorial and other staff. The Commons is a real asset to the community, and it gets better every edition. Seldom does a community resource so positively and thoroughly enhance a community in the way The Commons has enhanced the Brattleboro area.
Having said that, though, I have to wonder whether someone has set up a Warmists' Kool-Aid stand in The Commons' newsroom … and the Kool-Aid is free.
The Commons' editorial, “More global warming equals more snow? Researchers say yes” [Feb. 9], is a glaring testament to the Middle Child syndrome that Warmists - who had previously spent decades being ignored by rational folk - are almost uniformly afflicted with.
For those who missed the Warmist Kool-Aid editorial in question, here's a summary:
• Whatever the weather is, it's proof of global warming.
• Too much snow? It's global warming.
• Too little snow? It's global warming.
• Too-hot temperatures. Yep. Global warming did it.
• Too-cold temperatures? Time to put out an APB on global warming.
• Too much rain? Phew! Somebody open a window!
• Too little rain? Well … you know…
This warmist propaganda serves as further evidence that warmists are becoming shriller and shriller in their absurd claims in order to eke out their waning 15 minutes of misplaced media prominence.
And, sadly, like phantom polar bears on phantom ice floes, warmists are drifting, reality-wise, farther and farther out to sea.
Most absurdly, warmists have now officially re-branded “climate” as “global warming”; for warmists, the two terms have finally become synonyms.
I would also note that any analysis or commentary on alleged global warming that does not include a substantive mention of the carbon-credit-trading Ponzi scheme that instigated and is the engine which drives the useful idiot warmists' delusion.
This editorial was incomplete at best, dishonest at worst, and pablum as a matter of course.