Redstate

Brother Pejman calls attention to this piece from Patrick Michaels of the Cato Institute. It's an analysis of the futility of a set of proposals to ammeliorate global warming by the Virginia Governor's Commission on Climate Change. Michaels notes that the Commissions policy recommendations will have no effect whatsoever on the climate, and asks "What's the point?" The point couldn't be simpler, and it couldn't have less to do with global warming (or climate change, as global warming is called in the wintertime). The point is to gain a modicum of relief from the moral dilemma that many people feel, which is that humans impose an unsustainable burden on the planet, simply by pursuing happiness in our daily lives. The point is to obtain a small amount of absolution for the sin of being born human.