I was distracted from the real news by the attention given to Brian Williams for wittingly, or unwittingly, misleading the public when he said he was on a helicopter forced to land in 2003 after coming under fire in Iraq.
A friend in Britain clipped and sent on to us a couple of related “American” pieces from The Economist — "An hereditary meritocracy” and the editorial “America’s new aristocracy."
House Speaker John Boehner, coming off Republican triumphs in the recent election, is carrying on as if he were president.
Last week I listed the three major forces involved in why so little action is taking place around the impending cataclysm generated by climate change and global warming: (1) The scientists who are involved in value-free research, (2) environmentalists who are increasingly aware of the problem, and (3) politicians who realize the negative economic consequences of limiting the use of fossil fuels.
Anyone who follows these columns knows that climate change is at the top of my agenda.
