According to Brune's note, the man tried to sell him the craziest climate change theory we've heard yet -- that it's a case of "not to worry" because once oil leaves the ground, it will "reconstitute itself".
In fact," he goes on breezily, "I'm not sure the whole thing isn't crazy, this climate change.
It was an evening to make the craziest of climate change deniers blush.
"I think it's crazy in this climate of scare resources to waste people's time on such a trivial matter when we have such a long and dependable peer review process," she adds.
"It was only a few months ago when you'd listen to CNBC and people would be saying proudly that they paid no attention to valuation; the climate was crazy," one prominent short-fund manager said.
Now Santa's getting kind of crazy, Diving at Lenore Skenazy, Climate prescient James Hansen, Goth-y rocker Marilyn Manson, Joanne Liu, borderless doctor, Sly Stallone, and Robert Proctor.
Dr. Arneson recounts the stories of farmers he knows in Honduras: "They tell me that they used to be able to plant by the calendar, but they can't anymore — the climate has gone crazy," he said.
"The 'where do we land when climate change gets crazy?' question seems to be an increasingly common one," said Mr. Steffen in an e-mail message, adding that such questions have "really gone mainstream".
In today's climate, it seems crazy to be so laissez-faire about the opposition.
Republicans have not had a friendly relationship with science these past few months: crazy theories about rape, attacking climate scientists, and referring to evolution as "lies straight from the pit of Hell".
