I think I’m good to go. I have news stories reporting that “In an astonishing announcement on global warming and extreme weather, the World Meteorological Organisation signalled last night that the world’s weather is going haywire.” I have been advised to goggle, “Greater climatic optimum (ca. 1st century AD),” “Lesser climatic optimum (ca. 10th century AD),” “Maunder Minimum,” and “galactic cosmic ray flux global warming” (kathryn, please excuse the sci-fi-sounding reference). I have been called R-Lo (I’m sorry it just doesn’t work). And I have talked to a meterologist who is a Cosmo fan. I stumbled through a conversation trying not to sound totally ignorant on the subject. After I said, “Well, global warming is projected to take place mainly in the upper latitudes,” I feared he might ask: “OK, smart guy–define `latitude.’” Anyway, we were just about to hang up, when I heard him yelling “Wait! Wait!” on the other end. Thinking this might be some final insight crucial to my column, my new meterologist source said only, “Give Jonah a raise…”