Quote of the Day

Heh. While I'm fairly agnostic on the subject of whether or not it's happening, I am of the view that it would be better for us to deal with it rather than attempt to prevent it which seems an extraordinarily costly fool's errand, this is James Taranto's comment on a German polar expedition that found ice over the North Pole is thicker than anticipated (WSJ's BestoftheWeb):

Is it possible that global warming is neither a catastrophe waiting to happen nor a fraud but merely the result of confusion induced by the metric system?