I love big poofy clouds of soot 
At least I'd better now. The half-cat President has struck again, now allowing more junk into the air as a way to "help" the poor energy industry (as a Californian, I must question whether this somehow violates California's laws against profiting from a criminal act, but I digress).
Here's the rat's honest truth. Global warming is hard to understand. Though it is real, the complexity is too high for the average human to grasp. Humans are generally simple creatures, and if global warming doesn't burn the skin on their naked pink rears, they don't believe it is real.
But what is real, and what does peel even the plumpest humans from their couches in outrage, spitting candy wrappers and beer tabs, is noticeable air pollution. You know, the kind that makes those early-pioneer accounts of Los Angeles so funny.
How else can we explain the desire of millions of humans in the Golden State to support the toughest air pollution controls in America? In fact, the mostly conservative Central Valley of California is up in arms about what they feel is "second hand smog" flowing their way from the San Jose-Oakland area. Seems the price of smog is too high around here to indulge those predatory anti-regulation instincts.
Selling humans on cleaner lungs, healthier children, and blue skies seems a bit easier than showing them charts of sea level changes and ice core analysis. I tried to explain ice core analysis to a human once. He started to drool and burped a lot.
The human goes grammar nazi
My agent, Susan the Human, has been rooting around the dark recesses of the English language for the purposes of study. If you've ever had an English teacher yell at you for using the passive voice, but didn't know why, consider Susan's human-centered analysis of the issue.
Susan offers this disclaimer: just because I'm writing about grammar doesn't mean Pesky the Rat won't continue to make noticeable, glaring grammar mistakes in his weblog. Pesky the Rat writes his own weblog. I am only his agent. I don't know why anyone ever got the idea that I had something to do with it. So there.
10:11:57 PM 
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