If you believe in Santa, you believe in man-made “climate change”

“Climate change — to deny it exists, to just put your head in the sand and, ‘oh no, it doesn’t exist, what are you talking about,’ is about like standing on the floor of Macy’s during the month of December and claiming Santa Claus doesn’t exist.”
Rep. Nick Rahall
Democratic incumbent for the U.S. House in the 3rd District of West Virginia

What? We hope it doesn’t appear that we are beating the “climate change/global warming” meme to death, but this quote is just too precious to pass up. It came during an interview with members of the editorial staff of West Virginia’s Register-Herald newspaper. From the context of the questions regarding “global climate change”, it is clear that Rep. Rahall is in the camp of those that believe man-made climate change is a serious threat. We therefore have to wonder about his statement above. Rep. Rahall does understand (please don’t let your young children read what comes next) that Santa Claus really “doesn’t exist”, right?

We expect his feelings have to do with the idea that Macy’s during the month of December is a wonderful, Christmassy place to be or maybe he has seen “Miracle on 34th Street” one too many times, but this seems like an odd way to put forth the consensus/science-is-settled argument of catastrophic global warming theorists. Indeed, from the perspective of those considered “climate skeptics”, this statement in some ways seems right on the mark – that is, like Santa Claus, “climate change” doesn’t exist.

Any serious student of the climate sciences understands that the climate has changed, many times and dramatically so, over the centuries and millenia, so technically Rep. Rahall’s intented logic is correct, but we thank him for giving us a brief chuckle and say,

“Oh no you didn’t say that!”