I almost had a stroke after seeing a local TV weather forecaster give viewers an Earth Day lecture on man caused “climate change” with colorful bar graphs of average temperatures in Minneapolis with blue bars being colder than “average” temperatures and red warmer than “average” with of course the last few years being ominously in red as “proof” of man caused climate change. His sophistry was cute but totally devoid of any scientific thinking. Using temperature records for a single city dating to only 1895 and using some type of unexplained averaging, as a comparison hardly would be indicative of any global scale climate change let alone any meaningful analysis of causes. He concluded his lecture with the admonition that we must stop using fossil fuels if we are to avoid the climate apocalypse.