I just love this story from the UK's Telegraph newspaper: "Snow is consistent with global warming, say scientists."

The subtitle: "Britain may be in the grip of the coldest winter for 30 years and grappling with up to a foot of snow in some places but the extreme weather is entirely consistent with global warming, claim scientists."

It's almost enough to make you laugh except when you realize that these scientists are doing their very best to attack both political and economic liberty in the interest of increasing their own grant money.

A wide range of data continues to show the "global warming" scare to be a hoax:

* CO2 levels lag, don't lead, planet temperature changes
* Arctic sea ice recently made it's largest one-season gain ever and is at or above its average this decade
* While anecdotes are not data, enough anecdotes of unusually cold weather around the planet suggest something real

There are dozens more bullet points one could add, but I'm going to keep this short.

The main point is that you know the alarmists are getting desperate when they say that unusually cold weather fits neatly into their claims of an overheating planet. It's clearly, patently ridiculous.

Of course, they're getting desperate to maintain the inflow of money from muddle-headed liberals and environmental radicals, as well as the few (in my view traitorous) corporations who are piling on to the junk science in order to sell us ethanol or compact fluorescent light bulbs. (They're terrible...stay away!)

So now they're telling us that global warming will slow the closure of a southern hemisphere hole in the ozone. Or that the ocean is getting more acidic. It's been the tactic of the alarmists to release one outrageous "sky is falling" claim after another for several years now.

One other interesting thing I ran across: This article describes a 90-year old scientific study which demonstrated that the "greenhouse effect" of atmospheric gases does not exist.

The current economic crisis will somewhat impede the ability of those whose real aim is to attack capitalism and/or the energy industry under the guise of saving the planet. But only somewhat. After all, the so-called "stimulus" bill contains several hundred millions of dollars for the liar-in-chief, NASA's James Hansen, to continue spewing his junk science into the world because it pleases Democratic politicians.

Fighting this dangerous climate alarmism is something we can't be complacent about. Just because rational people realize that something must be wrong when someone says that a very cold season or a very cold year means the planet is overheating, that doesn't mean liberals will realize it.

Allow me to leave you with this interesting article about one of the men who created global warming hysteria, and an apparent end-of-life change of heart:
see "The Amazing Story Behind the Global Warming Scam"