Record Low Temperatures Hit Central US

Global warming alert!

The inimitable Mark Steyn takes on global warming hysteria.

[Earth has become Planet Goofy], a strange lost world where it's perfectly normal for apparently sane people to walk around protesting about global warming in sub-zero temperatures. Or, as the Canadian Press reported: "Montreal - tens of thousands of people ignored frigid temperatures Saturday to lead a worldwide day of protest against global warming."

Unfortunately, no one had supplied an updated weather forecast to the fellow who writes the protesters' chants. So, to the accompaniment of the obligatory pseudo-ethnic drummers, the shivering eco-warriors sang: "It's hot in here! There's too much carbon in the atmosphere!" Is this the first sign of the "New Ice Age" the media warned us about last week?

Isn't that by Nelly?

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But the point is, as Steven Guilbeault of Greenpeace puts it: "Global warming can mean colder, it can mean drier, it can mean wetter, that's what we're dealing with." Got that? If it's hot, that's a sign of global warming, and, if it's cold, that's a sign of global warming.

And if it's just kind of average - say, 48F and partially cloudy, as it will be in Llandudno today - that's a sign that global warming is accelerating out of control and you need to flee immediately because time is running out !

The Northeast had some unseasonably warm weather last week, which we all enjoyed quite a bit. Notice they didn't blame that on global warming. Because most people would have said "Really? I could get used to this."

Read it all. It gets better and better.

posted by Ace at 12:40 PM

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