Jonathan Chait reports the demise of yet another "fact" that Global Warming deniers have used to delay doing anything about Global Warming. Any day now they'll be down to claiming that the "science is still not settled" because there's a middle school Chemistry teacher in Biloxi who hasn't made up his mind.
Last time I mentioned Climate Change, I got a couple of e-mails from people who said, approximately, "Don't be ridiculous. It is the height of foolish arrogance for Man to think that he can change the weather!" I hope that's not so but I do know that if our weather's going to get more extreme, we should build levees and better drainage conduits and fix bridges and roads and do all sorts of things to prepare. That, Man can certainly do.