The GOP Fiddles While America Burns

You want to know the very definition of irony? While the Republican National Convention is going on in Ohio--loaded to the hilt with people who deny the reality of global warming--the country itself is baking under a heat wave that is likely amplified by global warming. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration just released this model temperature map of the United States: That is a model of the air temperatures in the US at 5:00 p.m. EDT on July 18, 2016, showing what's colloquially c...