Learning to Speak In Tongues: Transcendental Climate Experiences for Dummies

Or, maybe in Greenland, the minister of the interior or environment or whatever they call it there has never read the history of Greenland? Obviously, Tom never has or else he would realize that Greenland has gone through numerous greenings and freezings in the last how many centuries? In fact, it was only after several years of wonderful greenness and then several of subsequent mini "ice age" that many of the Vikings took themselves off for New Vineland (New Foundland) because the climate was more hospitable and temperate. Of course, now that Tom Friedman has watched pieces of glaciers sheer off of ancient glaciers in Greenland to the oceans below, suddenly it has loosed his tongue so that he can "speak climate" like some religious worshipper looked into the eyes of a rattle snake can suddenly speak the tongue of God.... [read full story]