QUOTE OF THE DAY - AT 10:35 A.M. ET:  From Lorne Gunter in the Edmonton (Canada) Journal:

Global warming is not only no longer happening, it is not likely to resume until 2025 or later, if then. So why are we continuing to hear so much doomsaying about climate change?

There are a lot of people in every age who think they know better than everyone else and, therefore, have a right to tell everyone how to live. In the 1950s, it was country-club and parish council busybodies with their strict moral codes. In the 1970s, it was social democrats with their fanciful economic theories. Today, it's environmentalists.

Same instinct, different wrapper.

COMMENT:  Well said.  We claim no special expertise about global warming here, but we do think it's time that qualified dissenters be heard fully, rather than ridiculed by that great man of science, Isaac Newton Gore.  And we must denounce the idea of a scientific "consensus" on the issue.  Science isn't about consensus.  It isn't a show of hands.  Science is about proof and observation.  All it takes is one scientist to prove "the world of science" wrong, and it's happened many times. 

March 15, 2009