Day 1,599: ascribe, daft, whack

To ascribe all this progress to Paris would be daft.

In a world where the seasons themselves are increasingly out of whack—witness last week’s extraordinary springtime heatwave in Brazil—the cops provide a predictable annual space in the international calendar for side-agreements and new expressions of intent.

Progress on climate change has been too slow. But it’s been real

Artwork of the day 
Female figures, wanderer, whacky (Study to "Boyarynya Morozova")
Vasily Surikov
Original Title: Женские фигуры, странник, юродивый
Date: c.1884; Moscow, Russian Federation
Style: Realism
Genre: sketch and study

Word of the day 
ascribe: to believe or say that something is caused by something else
daft: silly or stupid
whack: the action of hitting someone or something noisily

Quote of the day
“I ascribe to Mark Twain's theory that the last person who should be President is the one who wants it the most. The one who should be picked is the one who should be dragged kicking and screaming into the White House.”

― Bill Hicks