Posted On: May 29, 2007, 3:46 pm CDT

Posted By: Michael Patrick

Somehow it's peversely gratifying to see the nutbags come out of the closet every time the IJ publishes an article on climate change.

The usual suspects - under various names -repeat their mantra that it's all a hoax -despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary. There's even a new one this time, "Hawaii Duke," who sees a vast conspiracy, but of course can't name names. He's probably too busy watching for black helicopters.

I'll give "Chilly" some credit for effort - he managed to find some obscure Israeli scientist, who doesn't believe it either.

Trying to get such people to actually read the data is useless. They're too busy using these articles as an excuse to attack Al Gore, Democrats and anything else that offends them.

If they really cared about America and the insurance industry they would be seeking solutions rather than condemning the messenger for giving them information they don't want to hear.

A couple of years ago, before sufficient data had been compiled to verify the reality of the world's warming climate and the increasing evidence that man's activities are in large part responsible for it, one would have called these sceptics "ostriches" with their heads buried in the sand. Today we should apologize to the ostriches.

MP