The Dialogues of Sancho and Quixote MYTHICAL Debates on Global Warming

Do you understand the American climate debate?<br>Did you ever want to laugh at it?<br> Here it is in all its absurdity.<p>Sancho and Quixote made their debut in 1997.<br>Some snippets from their conversations:<p>ON NEW ORLEANS FROM NOVEMBER 25 2000<br>SANCHO: “So where are you off to Quixote?”<br>QUIXOTE: “We’re closing down our offices in the great state of Louisiana. I’m selling some real estate and liquidating some assets--that kind of thing.”<br>SANCHO: “Why are your friends selling their real estate holdings in New Orleans?”<br>QUIXOTE: “I didn’t say that.”<br>SANCHO: “Did your address get given out to Greenpeace?”<br>QUIXOTE: “Nope. All I can say Sancho is one of the boys from Bermuda Biologicals got a little too loud in a Karaoke bar the other night and so I’m off to liquidate assets.”<br>SANCHO: “Something going to happen I should know about?”<br>QUIXOTE: “Where? What do you mean?”<p>ON ECONOMICS FROM APRIL 3 2006<br>QUIXOTE: “There is nothing we can do to cope with global warming. We must stay the economic course.”<br>SANCHO: “First you say we cannot modify our economic system.”<br>QUIXOTE: “Precisely Sancho.”<br>SANCHO: “Because it is fragile.”<br>QUIXOTE: “Very.”<br>SANCHO: “Then you say that when our economic system is battered by climate change its resiliency will carry us through the tough times.”<br>QUIXOTE: “Exactly Sancho.”<br>SANCHO: “But we can’t adjust its course when it is healthy?”<br>QUIXOTE: “Now you have it Sancho.”<p>ON THE ACIDIC OCEANS FROM AUGUST 2 2004<br>SANCHO: “Why are you adding baseball base bags to the ocean?”<br>QUIXOTE: “Look I do as I am told. They said the ocean was getting too acidic and I should add some bases to it.”<br>SANCHO: “You are one funny lackey Quixote. Are you sure they said bases? As in the plural?”<br>QUIXOTE: “You mean I should just add first base? What difference does it make? You environmentalists are so picky.”