WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: It isn’t the climate that is going globally weird: it’s the human world where the pace of change has outstripped the ability of politicians and intellectuals to manage or understand. Bloggers to the rescue!

Plus this key observation: “Except for some entrepreneurs, mavericks and renegades, our technocratic elites are mostly a bunch of rule followers and incrementalists. They got where they are by scoring well on tests, manipulating the platitudes of conventional wisdom a little better than the next guy and by pleasing their supervisors.” Yeah, you knew it already, but it can never be pointed out too often.

Also: “Not since the 1930s has the incompetence, incapacity and selfish shortsightedness of Europe’s governing class been so shockingly on display.” Let’s hope it doesn’t end as badly this time.