Um, Obama…Better Get To Work On That Lowering The Sea Level Thing

Seth Borenstein, climate alarmist extraordinaire for the AP, has written one of the most unintentionally hilarious pieces on global warming I’ve seen in a while. It starts out innocently enough…

“When Bill Clinton took office in 1993, global warming was a slow-moving environmental problem that was easy to ignore. Now it is a ticking time bomb that President-elect Barack Obama can't avoid.”

Ouch. But wait, it gets better. He writes of anxious scientists (nothing worse than those), worrying more and more about “tipping points.” Scientists fear (apparently fear is as good as the scientific method anymore) that the Arctic ice melt will be amplified, and they predict that the Arctic waters will be ice-free in a matter of summers, perhaps by 2013.

“We’re out of time”, says Stanford biologist Terry Root. “Things are going extinct.” Interestingly, I found this article on the heels of another article reporting the discovery of over 1,000 new species in the Greater Mekong. Apparently, no one bothered to tell the hot-pink spiny millipede that his time was up.

And what of the pesky detail that 2008 has been one of the coolest on record? While “skeptics” like myself might say that this might be pause for further examination, Borenstein says it actually illustrates how fast the world is warming – I kid you not.

Like the song says, "Facts all come with points of view. Facts don’t do what I want them to…"