The stories of climate disaster have always been on humanity's mind in some fashion, dating

back to ancient legends and scriptural traditions in nearly every faith, telling a flood's

fires and other calamities, but the climate challenge in front of us is not some prophecy

of cosmic doom.

It is a specific set of problems.

Ah yes, it's a specific set of problems that constitute the secular apocalypse, which

is still doom.

You know, the Mayans had massive child sacrifice ceremonies because they wanted better weather.

They wanted more rain for the crops next year, you know, better sunshine to get a tan,

get a nice tan.

That was Pete boot edge edge, of course.

The transportation secretary talking about the weather again, hey, weather is crazy, isn't

it?

Yeah, there have always been, he says, apocalyptic doom cults, doomsday death cults surrounding

the weather and there today's version of that, they're the 21st century iteration of

ancient climate, doomsday death cults, boy, yeah, you know, the Incas, they, they would,

they would sacrifice children by the busload, they didn't have buses, of course, but by

the busload metaphorically speaking, because they wanted more rain for the crops next year

and stuff and they would break all their bones and do all kinds of stuff.

But we'll move on from that, Michael just surprised me with the Pete boot edge edge sound

bite to open the, the big radio broadcast today and the, I don't know, I flash back at

my primordial memory to the Incas massive ceremonial child sacrifices, which were, and it

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