Rogue Scientists and Climategate

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"Boomers now risk being unwelcome at grandchildren't birthday parties" James Travers writes today. "After inheriting wealth, knowledge and health, after being spared the horrors of world wars and a great depression, history's most privileged cohorts are rolling the dice on someone else's future. Those edging toward the door are leaving behind their garbage for thos they say they love.

"It's a foolish gamble and a selfish indulgence. Even if the science is imperfect, the evidence is too compelling to prudently ignore. Falling back on doubts, or pointing to carefully pruned e-mails as proof of a grassy knoll conspiracy, won't lift excuses into explanations or transform blame into foregiveness."

For Edmund Burke, the "social contract 'becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but betwen those who are living, those who are dead and those who are to be born'."

And presumably the prime minister "doesn't believe that putting a price on carbon, or curbing our excesses, is a generational task more difficult than, say, defeating fascism," says Travers. "Presumably he grasps that someday we will all have to tell grandchildren that by the turn of this century the social contract was no more binding than an election promise."

And why will this bloody program not allow one to post, this morning?

And way off course ... perhaps there is room somewhere for discussion of the hedonism that seems to have been passed down to the flower children, the boomers to be, a thought flowing from Travers' column? Was "doing your own thing" just a youthful libertarianism? Is that why so many today have trouble with the concept "libertarian"... want to somehow meld it with their "socialism" and "egalitarianism"?