Quote of the day: What could be more scientific than the observation that gosh, it sure is hot?

"I'm tempted to become a global-warming skeptic myself, just so I'm not on the same team as Pat Robertson."
—Rachel Maddow, on her Air America Radio show this morning, responding to the discovery by heretofore-outspoken global-warming denier the Rev. Pat Robertson that it's really, really hot out there ("the most convincing evidence I've seen on global warming in a long time," he said on his Thursday 700 Club broadcast)

"We really need to address the burning of fossil fuels," opined the Reverend Pat. "It is getting hotter, and the icecaps are melting, and there is a buildup of carbon dioxide in the air."

As Timothy Gardner observes in his Reuters report on the Robertson revelation, "The view put him at odds with fellow Republican President George W. Bush, who has benefited politically from Robertson's backing and who has refused to embrace the concept of human-caused global warming."


AFTERTHOUGHT—Uh, one question, please, Reverend Pat!

Until this heat wave, you seemed pretty darned sure that this "global warming" thing was nothing but a liberal-environmentalist hoax. So are we right in guessing that those icecaps, like, just started melting, and all that carbon dioxide just started building up, at the same time that it got so darned hot?

(Well, gosh, as the president would probably say, no one could've foreseen that!)