text: Ms. Rushing is not a serious person.  Who the eff would ever write this silliness if they weren't completely unaware and unfazed at the prospect of public humiliation?
  
  “We do a lot of modeling and study satellite images, but what if we look at literature, at art, at drawings and recordings of glaciers?”
  
  A serious person would measure their words against their reputation.   Ms. Rushing is no different than a first century Christian expecting the Resurrection at every daybreak;  they'll will not consider anything which contests with their beliefs.