Nuptial Vowels

According to a witty opinion piece  in the Post this morning, South Dakota legislators recently called for state schools to take a more balanced approach to teaching about climate change, insisting that “climate change is a scientific theory rather than a proven fact.” Many factors can “effect world weather phenomena,” the legislators opined—including “astrological” ones. While they’re at it, perhaps they should mandate state schools to teach the difference between “affect” and effect” and “astrological” and “astronomical.”