promising the impossible to the ignorant

wretchard of the Belmont Club exists to remind me of how damn good my competition is. Wretchard’s post, A Haunting We Will Go, rambles around, poking holes into the Green’s religious conviction that Kyoto is achievable.

wretchard examines the vast gulf between the plausible and Kyoto and concludes that the only reason why politicians can sell Kyoto to the public is widespread scientific ignorance on the public’s part. Only a bottomless scientific illiteracy—the mathematical equivalent would be something like the inability to do long division—prevented the Kyoto treaty from being laughed out of court in the first place.

Check out wretchard's post, it's a good read, as usual.