Quote of the Day

George Will on those who cling with religious fervor to the notion that the planet is warming, all evidence to the contrary be damned:

The [New York] Times says "a short-term trend [a decade-long cooling of the globe] gives ammunition to skeptics of climate change." Actually, what makes skeptics skeptical is the accumulating evidence that theories predicting catastrophe from man-made climate change are impervious to evidence. The theories are unfalsifiable, at least in the "short run." And the "short run" is defined as however many decades must pass until the evidence begins to fit the hypotheses.

Warnings about cataclysmic warming increase in stridency as evidence of warming becomes more elusive.

In March, seven months ago, [Prince Charles] said humanity had 100 months -- until July 2017 -- to prevent "catastrophic climate change and the unimaginable horrors that this would bring." Evidently humanity will prevent this.

[But ...]

Charles Moore of the Spectator notes that in July, the prince said that by 2050 the planet will be imperiled by the existence of 9 billion people, a large portion of them consuming as much as Western people now do. Environmental Cassandras must be careful with their predictions lest they commit what climate alarmists consider the unpardonable faux pas of denying that the world is coming to an end.

"Cooling Down the Cassandras," Washington Post, October 1, 2009