The Dialogues of Sancho and Quixote: MYTHICAL Debates on Global Warming: 1997-2010

Do you understand the American climate debate?
Do you ever want to laugh at it? Here it is, in all its absurdity:

ON NEW ORLEANS, FROM NOVEMBER 25, 2000
SANCHO:    “So where are you off to, Quixote?”
QUIXOTE:  “We’re closing down our offices in the great state of  Louisiana. I’m selling some real estate and  liquidating some assets--that kind of thing.”
SANCHO:   “Why are your friends selling their real estate  holdings in New Orleans?”
QUIXOTE: “I didn’t say that.”
SANCHO:    “Did your address get given out to Greenpeace?”
QUIXOTE:   “Nope. All I can say, Sancho, is one of the boys  from Bermuda Biologicals got a little too loud in a  Karaoke bar the other night and so I’m off to  liquidate assets.”
SANCHO:   “Something going to happen I should know about?”
QUIXOTE:  “Where? What do you mean?”

ON ECONOMICS,  FROM APRIL 3, 2006
QUIXOTE:  There is nothing we can do to cope with  global  warming. We must stay the economic course.”
SANCHO:    “First, you say we cannot modify our economic  system.”
QUIXOTE:  “Precisely, Sancho.”
SANCHO:    “Because it is fragile.”
QUIXOTE:  “Very.”
SANCHO:    “Then you say that when our economic system is   battered by climate change, its resiliency will carry  us through the tough times.”
QUIXOTE:  “Exactly, Sancho.”
SANCHO:    “But we can’t adjust its course when it is healthy?”
QUIXOTE:  “Now you have it, Sancho.”


ON THE ACIDIC OCEANS, FROM AUGUST 2, 2004
SANCHO:    “Why are you adding baseball base bags to the ocean?”
QUIXOTE:  “Look, I do as I am told. They said the ocean was getting too acidic and I should add some bases to it.”
SANCHO:    “You are one funny lackey, Quixote. Are you sure they said bases? As in the plural?”
QUIXOTE: “You mean I should just add first base? What difference does it make? You environmentalists are so picky.”