ABSTRACT

Hey, I’m a rational guy. I mean, I own a computer and use it pretty much every day, often for hours at a time. I’ve got a Prius sitting in the driveway, although it’s a bit buried in an early spring snow as I write these lines on March 23, 2015. That’s quite a machine, with all its hybrid tech. My wife and I bought it because it generally gets above 50 miles per gallon. We’re concerned about climate change, you see. And, yes, that is a rational concern-even though we did have snow on March 23, 2015, and even though February 2015 was the coldest in 79 years (so the news media said) in Madison, Wisconsin, where I live.