QUOTE OF THE DAY – AT 11:15 A.M. ET:  Brought to us by the spirited (and yes, controversial) David Deming of the University of Oklahoma: 

It seems now that everyone is qualified to have an opinion on global warming. In a recent column, theology professor Susan Thistlethwaite explained that “frigid weather” was an “example of the kind of violent and abrupt climate change that results from global warming.” Sometimes, I just feel so stupid. I thought cold weather was attributable to the annual phenomenon known as “winter.” The good professor also claimed that cold weather in the United States is a punishment sent by God for “our sinful failure to take care of the Creation.”

If the current cooling trend continues for a few more years, the theory of global warming faces imminent extinction. It will then join a long list of other expired environmental doom-and-gloom predictions, including overpopulation, peak oil and nuclear winter.

COMMENT:  The official position of the Obama administration is that global warming constitutes a major crisis.  But the crisis part of "major crisis" never seems to occur.  Predictions have fallen apart.  Attempts to blame extreme weather on global warming have become laughable, especially when compared with actual statistics showing that many forms of extreme weather have actually diminished over time.

Yes, there is probably some global warming at some times.  And yes, I would imagine that greenhouse gases play some part.  Theoretically, almost everything that is let into the air does.  But the key question has always been amount.  How much global warming is there, actually?  How much does humankind contribute?  Enough to worry about?  Enough to justify the expenditure of trillions?  What would be the real result?

Until we get verifiable, proved answers, I'm not panicking.

January 18, 2014