Settled science: It was hot last Saturday evening outside a mainstream journalist's house; therefore because of CO2 "soon there will be ferns and palm trees in Greenland"

Climate change: Global warming is a fact - Achenblog - The Washington Post

Saturday night I hung out in my sauna. Actually I just sat on the front porch. It was 101 degrees at 8:15 p.m., according to the Post website; while weather.com reported that it was 99 degrees. In such situations I prefer the front porch because of the veneer of civilization suggested by the street, the cars, the other houses. The back porch views nature, which, we now know, is not our friend.

We seem to have suddenly jumped from the Holocene back to the Eocene. Soon there will be ferns and palm trees in Greenland...The warming trend has flattened out in the last decade but probably only because of air pollution from Chinese coal-fired power plants or somesuch forcing we haven’t fully discovered (smog is hardly the long-term solution we should be seeking). The broader patterns are clear.

Joel Achenbach - The Washington Post

Joel Achenbach has been a staff writer for The Washington Post since 1990...A 1982 graduate of Princeton University, he has taught journalism at Princeton and Georgetown University.