clipped from orangepunch.freedomblogging.com

One thing about tough times is that they tend to help focus the mind. Have you noticed that amid genuine financial crisis how little attention is given to faux global warming?

“‘Global warming’ is sub-prime science, sub-prime economics, and sub-prime politics, and it could well go down with the sub-prime mortgage,” said Philip Stott, UK professor emeritus of Biogeography and author of Global Environmental Change.

“Despite all the undoubted political and economic gloom, the delightful thing about today’s Sunday newspapers is the virtual absence of the phrase ‘global warming’. ‘Global warming’ has been effectively buried, by collapsing banks and plunging markets, by rising energy costs, by internal battling within the Labour Party, by pitbulls and the American election, by real threats, like knife crime and terrorism in Islamabad, and by the fact that, on nearly every bit of current evidence, the world is likely to enter a cooling phase . . .”