Dog meat protests are apparently on the rise in Seoul as Koreans struggle to shake the mild reputation they have for turning household pets and endangered animals into soups that are supposed to give men harder erections. I’m willing to bet that most of the people at these protests still prefer to spend a night a week at the local samgyupsal joint, devouring food that Westerners approve of; during the Seoul Olympics the Korean government “closed all restaurants serving Gaejang-guk to better improve the country’s image to Western visitors” according to wikipedia, although naturally they opened up later, and can be found at a safe distance from major tourist destinations.

Sometimes writing stinks enough to burn the nose hairs: S. Fred Singer shows how.

Humans have adapted to natural climate changes in the past; we should have no problem doing so in the future.

The weight bearing down on that “should” is enough to make me cringe. Fast forward to a not so cheery future: “Ooops, we should’ve!” says Singer/

Compare Singer and The Economist on melting Arctic ice.

Singer: Glaciers are melting and Arctic sea ice is disappearing. But this is a necessary consequence of warming and says nothing about its cause. Any warming—whether man-made or natural—will melt ice. Confusing cause and effect is faulty logic.

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