King Canute demonstrated the futility of defying nature when he ordered the tides to cease crashing upon the shoreline. Nature ignored him.
There was a biblical precedent to this demonstration of man's inability to command nature when the descendants of Noah tried to avert the danger of another flood by building a tower so tall no floodwaters could inundate it.
As the list of global warming skeptics lengthens, the alarms warning of a planet about to be barbecued sounded by the fanatical adherents of man-made climate change grow more shrill and sometimes border on the comical.
