Sen. John McCain has confirmed his dedication to the holy crusade against global warming, now known to the initiates as climate change. He's told the world that nobody is more determined than he to take steps to stop Mother Nature's alleged plan to deep fry the planet.
King Canute demonstrated the futility of defying nature when he ordered the tides to cease crashing upon the shoreline. Nature ignored him.
There was a biblical precedent to this demonstration of man's inability to command nature when the descendants of Noah tried to avert the danger of another flood by building a tower so tall no floodwaters could inundate it.
