Never Learn

George W. Bush never said that global warming wasn’t real. He only said, year after year after year, that the matter needed more study.

Six years into his administration, there has been study after study, and the answer seems inescapable: global warming is real, it’s caused by humans, and the results will be catastrophic. And the Bush Administration will stay the course:

Despite a strongly worded global warming report from the world’s top climate scientists, the Bush administration expressed continued opposition Friday to mandatory reductions in heat-trapping “greenhouse” gases.

The one thing we must never do is learn.