Cooler Heads Will Prevail

As we head into our third week of freezing temperatures here in the Northeast, with some parts of upstate New York buried under eight feet of snow, the global warming/climate change hysteria continues unabated, as the idiotic Al Gore wanders the planet searching for another braindead audience to bore to death with his silly slideshows. Thankfully, we have some lucid thinkers on the right side who are not playing along.

In the end, I believe the American people will choose not to destroy our economy just to go along with junk science that has no foundation in reality.

Lowry: The Church of Climate Panic.

Sophisticated people in Western societies don't stand in public and shout, "The end is near!" the way a nutty preacher does. They don't cut their scalps the way Shia Muslims do in a rite of self-flagellation to mark the Day of Ashura. They do none of these things, because they have the issue of global warming instead.

Then we have Jonah Goldberg: Global Cooling Costs Too Much.

Given the option of getting another 1,800 percent richer in exchange for another 0.7 degrees warmer, I'd take the heat in a heartbeat. Of course, warming might get more expensive for us (and we might get a lot richer than 1,800 percent too). There are tipping points in every sphere of life, and what cost us little in the 20th century could cost us enormously in the 21st -- at least that's what we're told.

And boy, are we told. We're (deceitfully) told polar bears are the canaries in the global coal mine. Al Gore even hosts an apocalyptic infomercial on the subject, complete with fancy renderings of New York City underwater.

Skeptics are heckled for calling attention to global warming scare tactics. But the simple fact is that activists need to hype the threat, and not just because that's what the media demand of them. Their proposed remedies cost so much money -- bidding starts at 1 percent of global GDP a year and rises quickly -- they have to ratchet up the fear factor just to get the conversation started.

Undaunted by reality, the hysterical continue ahead.

Climate change concerts 'to dwarf Live Aid'

I'll likely be one of two places come July 7. At the beach or by my pool, soaking in some glorious sunshine. Pass me the SPF 30.

UPDATE: Boston Globe hack: Like Holocaust Deniers. When moral vanity collides with moral superiority, you get an idiot like Ellen Goodman.

UPDATE II: Good links at Forward Movement.