I’m still a little boy at heart. I love creepy crawlies.

I only hate winter now because I’m a groundskeeper and I spend my entire winter worrying about snowstorms and how much it will interfere with family time.

I hate winter.

I love winter. It’s my favorite season. No centipedes.

Much as I love anecdotal evidence, consider how one might game photographic “evidence.” I’m not talking about Photoshop here; just choose a photo from spring for the “before” entry, and one from fall for the “after.” Voila! Evidence of glaciers melting.

In this context, I love the photo showing the polar bears looking out plaintively from the melting ice floes. Let’s politely overlook the fact that the Linnaean name of the polar bear is Ursus maritimus (“bear of the sea” for those who’ve forgotten their Latin), and they are known to swim a hundred miles out to sea. Drowning is not a big threat to them. Instead, look at the photo itself.

What jumps out to the observant viewer? It’s broad daylight in that photograph. Not pitch black (winter), nor faint oblique daylight (spring and fall), but broad daylight, and therefore – say it with me – SUMMER!

So all the photo proves is …Arctic ice partially melts in the summer. Stop press.

This is not to say that the climate isn’t getting warmer. Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t. Frankly, I don’t much care. (Actually, that’s not entirely true. I hate cold weather, so global warming sounds pretty good to me.) I doubt very much that we are causing any warming that should occur. (Cue my comparison of bacteria on a baseball with humans on earth here; the former are a hundred times more significant to their substrate than the latter.)

But put all that aside. No one really believes in AGW. Nobody. Laurie David flies around the country in her private jet agitating to stop global warming. If she thought jet travel might cause breast cancer (heightened exposure to cosmic rays – not so implausible), she’d have her ass on a Greyhound faster than you could say “carbon credit.” But she doesn’t.

Gotta tell ya something…

“But it is still getting warmer.”

God I hope so. I hate winter. And I hate snow.
Say, for the sake of argument that someone actually convinced me AGW was plausible, they’d still have to give me a compelling reason to believe its a bad thing.

I hate winter.

So I guess I should be civic-minded and start running with scissors …