Ernie the climate change skeptic ('Sesame Street' Wednesday)

Few would consider Ernie of 'Sesame Street' to be one of the world's great scientific minds. It seems that Ernie believes what artificial sweetener ads and Free Republic tell him - not what scientific reports say.

Don't get me wrong. Ernie's a nice guy and all. But he's been hoodwinked.

Why - like other climate change skeptics - he doesn't even believe that warm temperatures melt ice:



That sketch deals with the ruinment of Ernie's ice cube collection.

People thought I was weird because of the time I collected dried thorns off plants to use for self-defense in middle school, but ice cube collecting puts that to shame - especially because Ernie didn't even bother to keep his ice cube collection cold!

It's not like Bert is such a brainiac either. Notice how he thinks ice cubes should be placed in the refrigerator rather than the freezer.

But both members of the comedic duo are smarter than the Freeper droids. At least Ernie is smart enough to learn that the ice cubes melted instead of being stolen. The wingnut brain trust never learns and just repeats the same moronic ideas over and over for years.