A brief yet compelling letter from a hedge fund manager that lays out a case against climate-change skeptics was uncovered today, and I too thought at first blush that it would be a case of cats and dogs living together.

It’s not. It’s more or less perfect, actually. Written by Jeremy Grantham, chief investment strategist in Boston at hedge fund manager GMO LLC, the letter is accessible, objective, balanced, and (in my estimation) exactly right.

The climate-change analysis starts on page 7.

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(Link via Treehugger.)

… which is just plain offensive to corporate whores. Regarding the ridiculous notion that climate and weather are the same thing:

Who’s the genius who came up with this? “Professional statistician” William M. Briggs. Once again, we have someone who’s not a climate scientist bloviating about the topic of climate science. Briggs is, in fact, a corporate whore for the Heartland Institute — one of the many PR firms masquerading as a think tank. Prior to working on climate change denial, Heartland was involved in the sound and solid science of proving that smoking is harmless. Why anyone listens to these frauds is beyond me.

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I really do hope that Oliver North, et al., are trying to vacation in Miami Beach this week, and that they didn’t pack their jackets.

Marvel at this glorious piece of fear mongering from retired Marine and admitted international arms trafficker-then-conspirator Oliver North, who has just become one of climate change skeptics’ most-visible allies.

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