From a comic strip
by Quino:
Mafalda, her little
brother Guille, and their friend Felipe, are sitting on a doorstep during a very
hot day.
Felipe: Bother! It’s
really hot!
Guille: It’s the fault
of the government, right?
Mafalda: No, it's the fault
of the summer.
Turning toward Felipe,
she adds:
Mafalda: He’s a small
boy, he still can’t put the blame right.
Listened in a radio
station news in June 2017, on a very hot week:
Announcer: The cause
of the heat we are experiencing is the climate change.
Like Guille, this announcer (or the person who wrote what she said) can’t
put the blame right.
Nobody doubts that climate
change is a fact. In recent decades there
have been some evident changes in the global climate: the average temperature
of the planet is rising; the glaciers are receding; the polar ice is melting; the
distribution and intensity of extreme weather events (storms and hurricanes) is
changing. What we must discover is the cause of these phenomena. Regarding
this, there are two main theories:
