The whole global warming fairy tale is one of my pet peeves. They have no reliable weather data that covers the whole world, back far enough to make a reasonable judgement. They have no proof that the temperature is actually changing now or if it will change with more CO2 in the air. They have no proof that any increase in CO2 they may think they have detected is actually caused by man, as man is responsible for only a tiny tiny portion of global CO2 and CO2 is only a small part of greenhouse gas emissions. Even if the temperature has changed by 1 degree in the past hundred years as global warming supporters claim, they don't know that it's not a natural phenomenon, climates aren't static. They don't know if all these disasters they predict to get attention will actually happen, since they can't even predict the weather next month with any accuracy. It's all hysterical doomsday hogwash.

That's why I love this article by Mark Steyn:

The eco-doom-mongers were speculating on possible changes in thermohaline circulation in the Atlantic - or, as the Daily Mail put it: "Is Britain on the brink of a New Ice Age?" Europe could get so chilly that shivering Muslim rioters might burn the entire Peugeot fleet on the first night. Which would be good for the environment, presumably. After that, they'd be reduced to huddling round the nearest fire-breathing imam for warmth.

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 ! "Time is running out to deal with climate change," says Mr Guilbeault. "Ten years ago, we thought we had a lot of time, five years ago we thought we had a lot of time, but now science is telling us that we don't have a lot of time."

Really? Ten years ago, we had a lot of time? That's not the way I recall it: "Time is running out for the climate" - Chris Rose of Greenpeace, 1997; "Time running out for action on global warming Greenpeace claims" - Irish Times, 1994; "Time is running out" - scientist Henry Kendall, speaking on behalf of Greenpeace, 1992. Admirably, Mr Guilbeault's commitment to the environment extends to recycling last decade's scare-mongering press releases.

Read the whole thing.

(That's not to say that I don't support efforts to clean our air. I live in a smoggy city, and I would love to reduce our air pollution, but with local/national efforts that support cleaner technologies not with economy killing international treaties that mandate large cash donations to foreign nations.)