So the Chamber of Commerce wants a Scopes trial for global warming.
As a resident of Tennessee, home of the original monkey trial, I find this extraordinary news. The Chamber consciously seeks to play the William Jennings Bryan role (Frederic March/Matthew Harrison Brady in Stanley Kramer's Inherit the Wind [1960]--see the embedded clip)--as defender of the irrational, unscientific, biblical position? Seriously?
Climate change needs to find its Clarence Darrow (Spencer Tracy/Henry Drummond). Al Gore has carried the ball this far, but another advocate is needed. Or do we just skip to the Jor-el "Krypton is doomed" stage?
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