Devildawg15's blog: "Global Warming Hysteria Strikes Again"

Writing in today's Morning Bell, Conn Carroll explores the
Left's latest hysterical claims about global warming:

Today, NBC (which is owned by General Electric) will begin broadcasting the 2010 Winter
Olympics from Vancouver, Canada. Only two events are scheduled for the
opening day (alpine skiing and ski jumping), but even those events will
be difficult to pull off. Why? There is no snow in Vancouver. And
International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge knows exactly
what is to blame: global warming. Rogge tells AFP: Global
warming of course is a worry, it is a worry for the entire
world.

Considering that NBC/GE  has already received billions in TARP
bailout cash from the Obama administration and is actively lobbying
for a global warming energy tax bill so that it can receive billions
more in government green-energy subsidies on top of the millions it
already receives, we are sure to hear lots from NBC announcers about how the lack of
snow in Vancouver is just another reason Washington needs to act now to
stop global warming.

But back in Washington, the global warming scare-monger crowd is
singing a slightly different tune. Facing record snowfalls, Time is
reporting: Snowstorm: East Coast Blizzard Tied to Climate
Change. But do not confuse this headline with Robert F. Kennedy
Jr.'s column from two years ago claiming that global warming was
causing anemic winters in the Washington region.

No snow, too much snow. It does not matter to the enviroleft crowd. For
them, global warming always is to blame. That is the whole reason the
movement made a deliberate decision earlier this decade
to stop calling it global warming and start calling it climate
change. That way they could expand the universe of terrible
things they could plausibly blame on global warming. One British citizen
even maintains a comprehensive list of everything the enviroleft has tried
to blame on global warming including: Atlantic ocean less salty,
Atlantic ocean more salty, Earth slowing down, Earth spinning faster,
fish bigger, fish shrinking, and (most importantly) beer better, beer
worse.

The media are not the only ones complicit in the climate fear industry.
The 2007 Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(which is the most prestigious scientific body charged with determining
what is and is not settled science) has also been found to be cooking
the books. In just the past year, the IPCC's 2007 report has been exposed for
overstating the science on glacier loss in the Himalayas, crop loss
in Africa, Amazon rain forest depletion and damage from weather
catastrophes.
Here is what we do know: the cap-and-trade system in Europe is
completely failing to reduce carbon emissions; the
cap-and-trade system proposed here in the United States would do
nothing to affect global temperatures, but would do trillions of
dollars of damage to the U.S. economy.