Here’s the opening of a typical global climate change alarmist piece from the AP:
When Bill Clinton took office in 1993, global warming was a slow-moving environmental problem that was easy to ignore. Now it is a ticking time bomb that President-elect Barack Obama can’t avoid.
Since Clinton’s inauguration, summer Arctic sea ice has lost the equivalent of Alaska, California and Texas. The 10 hottest years on record have occurred since Clinton’s second inauguration. Global warming is accelerating. Time is close to running out, and Obama knows it.
“The time for delay is over; the time for denial is over,” he said on Tuesday after meeting with former Vice President Al Gore, who won a Nobel Peace Prize for his work on global warming. “We all believe what the scientists have been telling us for years now that this is a matter of urgency and national security and it has to be dealt with in a serious way.”
Notice how much of the editorializing is not in quotation marks? Ok, so you drop all the way down to the next to last paragraph and you see this gem:
Mother Nature, of course, is oblivious to the federal government’s machinations. Ironically, 2008 is on pace to be a slightly cooler year in a steadily rising temperature trend line. Experts say it’s thanks to a La Nina weather variation. While skeptics are already using it as evidence of some kind of cooling trend, it actually illustrates how fast the world is warming.
Whoah…a cooling trend illustrates how fast the world is warming. My head just exploded.
The average global temperature in 2008 is likely to wind up slightly under 57.9 degrees Fahrenheit, about a tenth of a degree cooler than last year. When Clinton was inaugurated, 57.9 easily would have been the warmest year on record. Now, that temperature would qualify as the ninth warmest year.
So in other words, because it was cooler in 1992 than it is now, even though the average temperature has been warmer during 9 years other than this one, it’s an illustration of how fast the earth is warming. My head just exploded! Notice how our intrepid AP reporter figured all this out on his own as he doesn’t attribute this thinking to any famous scientist or even to the Father of the Internet? I think it’s also funny that they picked out the Clinton inauguration as their milepost by which everything else is judged. Objectivity? Who needs it?
I particularly enjoyed what Glenn Beck did with this headline this morning (actually, his compadre Stu came up with this:) So, the drop in the Dow Jones Average really just illustrates how fast the economy is growing. The rate of home foreclosures is an illustration of how fast home ownership is rising. The extreme unattractiveness of Helen Thomas actually shows how hot she really is. I didn’t make any of those up, by the way.
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