In one of the stupidest statements in history, Trump just said ‘if we didn’t do any testing, we’d have very few cases’ of the pandemic coronavirus. Thus introducing the Republican solution to #climatechange: just stop reading the thermometers.” May 15, 2020 By Charles Komanoff Peter Gleick (co-founder, Pacific Institute; MacArthur “genius award” recipient; member, National Academy of Sciences), via Twitter, May 15.