Stuff happens. Live with it, or die, who cares, or how to be a Lomborgian philosopher ...

(Above: and more Moir here).

The pond has been studiously avoiding the Lomborgians during the current Paris talks, but felt an obligation - the Lomborgians are hot contenders for the pond's 'lizard Oz climate science scribbler of the year' award - to take notice of today's effort, which might just sway the judges before they scribble the winning name and tuck it into the envelope.

It's true that it is feeble, and short, and clearly written in haste, and as a result, has even greater charm:

The formatting leaves something to be desired - much like Google's current fiddling with the way blogs are formatted, which has produced something of a total fuck up and led to many tears and much frustration at the pond - but let us not use form as a distraction from content ...

Now it takes a really sublime form of sociopathic thinking to scribble blithely a sentence such as:

So if we worry about civil war being partly caused by global warming in Syria, we should also be thankful that global warming makes civil war less likely in these other countries.

As if that's some consolation to the poor fuckers in Syria, or some of the other heat-stressed folk around the world who might decide to bung on a do once the eggs start cooking on the bonnet...

And how about that carefree other line ...

Since global warming will overall mean increased precipitation, the fact that some nations will experience more drought also means other nations won't ...

It's really code for that ancient standby - sorry baby there are winners and losers in this world, but don't worry if you're a loser, just worry if me and you - or at least me - aren't the winners...

And so with a single line, the Lomborgians turned only a fair average entry into a white hot contender.

Is it enough to discombobulate the prime contender, Moorice 'the infallible' Newman?

Only time will tell ...

The tragedy is that we're never likely to know what the Bolter thinks of the Lomborgians talking as if climate change was real and there were many reasons to take it seriously ... he's off working for the ABC, perhaps on an alternative career path as the resident contrarian, at least when Pauline Hanson's not around to support Abbott...

But thanks to the Lomborgians, it seems some have moved down the chart a little, while the Bolter stays at the first stage ...

Of course it would seem that chart is now in urgent modification.

3a. Shit happens for some, not for others. Isn't that nifty? No problem there, there no problem at all ...