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Just recently the US Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that the EPA should do something about regulating greenhouse gases, including CO2, which throws an essential element of life into the category of an atmospheric pollutant.

I know, it allows them to enforce higher MPG restrictions, not altogether a bad thing, just kind of funny. By the way, does anyone believe a bureaucracy prone to meddling from whichever political party in power will be able to come to a consensus version of how much anthropogenic warming the peeps are perpetrating? The left complains about the muzzling of scientists now, just wait 'til the HillBill returns with a Democrat Congress.

Next, the IPCC came out with their final report on global warming. To no one's surprise it was so gloomy it fell only one step short of giving men everywhere a sound, viable excuse to induce sex from the nearest proximate woman. We're doomed, doomed. And stupid. Unless we change to socialism.

Then, renowned hurricane forecaster Dr. William Gray popped on the scene and called Al Gore the worst sort of alarmist. Ouch. The AP rushed to the Gorebot's defense in a low key article hinting that Gray, a massive 77 years old and no longer doing all his own research, might just be a blithering, railing crank. Well, that's what Power Line blog thinks of the AP story, which is recommended reading if only for their smackdown of this one single solitary paragraph:

Kerry Emanuel, an MIT professor who had feuded with Gray over global warming, said Gray has wrongly "dug (his) heels in" even though there is ample evidence that the world is getting hotter.

It took the PowerLiners mere seconds to Google the fact that Gray indeed does believe the planet is warming, he simply doesn't believe the warming is affecting hurricanes very much (they are affected more by previously established cycles). Their observation about AP's use of the world "railing" was right on and to me proves at least subtle bias. Add that to the fact they discussed Gray's age without discussing Gore's or Emanuel's and it adds even more weight. For example, how often do you see AP articles about a 60-something Gore "railing" about the coming planetary catastrophe?

But the funniest thing of all is this--every time a global warming report or conference occurs the US is assaulted by massive cold waves, blizzards, and record low temperatures:

...RECORD LOW TEMPERATURE SET AT MEMPHIS...

A RECORD LOW TEMPERATURE OF 30 DEGREES WAS SET THIS MORNING AT MEMPHIS AIRPORT. THIS BREAKS THE OLD RECORD OF 31 DEGREES SET IN 1990.

Like clockwork! Sure, it's no evidence whatsoever of climate change either way--it was 9 degrees above normal in March here--just good solid entertainment for a Saturday morning.