A republic, if you can keep it

I found this article today.  I think we can call this one now.  Global warming, climate change, anthropogenic global warming.  Call it whatever you want, but make sure to call it what it is: a LIE.

Or a lie that has morphed into a kooky - albeit dangerous - religious cult.

So says this AP story.

Ironically, 2008 is on pace to be a slightly cooler year in a steadily rising temperature trend line (note from Ben, this warming trend ended in 1998). 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.

That’s right, 2008 is going to be a cooler year, and that is evidence that the planet is warming up, apparently at an alarming rate.  Apparently anything is now possible (quick, someone try dividing by 0).  More from the article:

“The time for delay is over; the time for denial is over,” [Obama] 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.”

and

“We’re out of time,” Stanford University biologist Terry Root said. “Things are going extinct.”

Sounds pretty serious and dire, doesn’t it.  So if we are going to kill all living things on the planet, and it sounds like the planet itself, we better make fixing this our number 1 priority. After reading those parts of the article , I got a good laugh from this part.

Complicating everything is the worldwide financial meltdown. Frank Maisano, a Washington energy specialist and spokesman who represents coal-fired utilities and refineries, sees the poor economy as “a huge factor” that could stop everything. That’s because global warming efforts are aimed at restricting coal power, which is cheap. That would likely mean higher utility bills and more damage to ailing economies that depend on coal production, he said.

Yep, MMGW is here and ready to kill off all life right now, but economic woes may keep us from doing anything to stop it.  The way I read that is, it’s fine to waste money on global warming initiatives when there is plenty of money to waste, but when money tightens up, it falls by the wayside.  Things that fall by the wayside during financial hard times are non-essential things you can live without.  What does that say about global warming?