Michael Shore, hand-trained to be a spokesperson against global warming by Al Gore, will be educating the public about, “how climate change is affecting our water systems and other infrastructures.” The meeting is scheduled for 7:00 this Tuesday in Asheville. The last time Shore addressed the community on a Tuesday night, city council got out in time to allow some of the elected officials to attend. Shore’s company, FLS Energy, evidently considers its president’s opinion on a par with JLF President John Hood’s.

I’m being a jerk about this because discussions of climate change remind me of my lost youth. When I was in college, we were told there was insufficient data to comment intelligently about historical climate patterns. Now that there is, . . .