Back in the 1970’s, before global overcrowding was their big issue, and long before they’d managed to convince the world of global warming, the Democrats, Socialists, and Communists were worried about global cooling.  They’d run around publishing books about the second ice age, claiming that one day the snow would start falling and, God help us, it wasn’t going to stop.   Mankind was doomed.  We were headed for nuclear winter, whether we dropped the bomb or not.

Like most of their fictions, it was based on a lot of phony statistics and hokum, designed to bring the West down a peg or two.  Needless to say, it never came to pass and they quietly moved on to the next world-threatening, capitalist-created dilemma.

Maybe they should have held out a little longer, because the world has started to realize what a sham global warming is, and it’s getting a might chilly out there.

There’s a great BBC article  this weekend regarding planetary temperature, the fact that it peaked in 1998 and has been declining ever since, and how its ups and downs likely have more more to do with natural cycles than human impact.  If you’re interested in common sense over dogma, it’s a good read.

Those of you in Austria, brace yourself for the earliest measurable snowfall in your history.

If you’re reading in the comfort of the Dakotas, enjoy digging out from last week’s storms.

Montana, you’d better bundle up.  A record breaking deep freeze is on the way.  It’s expected to ravage Idaho’s potato crop.

Whatever you do, please don’t ask Al Gore about how he likes to repeat Greenpeace lies.  As demonstrated this weekend, he will turn your microphone off, and you will be asked to leave.

Bundle up, folks, and keep saving up for those Gore-invested carbon credits.  Al has to make a living somehow.

“Global Warming” has, in the press, already morphed into the more ambiguous “Climate Change.”    Please, wake me when the “Global Cooling” crackpots recognize that their second chance is just around the corner.

- Robert Laurie