A Summer Of Hot Chocolate Rather Than Cold Beer

Oh, yes. Global Warming is a real problem.

This year, throughout the Midwest and Northeast, more than 300 records, in the month of August alone, were set for the lowest temperatures ever recorded since 1895 (Click to See Full Story from USA Today: "U.S. wraps up record summer lows"). Overall, it was the 34th coolest Summer on record for the entire United States.

For the last decade, temperatures have been falling in direct contradiction to the "hockey stick" rise in temperatures that had been predicted by the Al Gore's of the world and by the computer projections of the U.N.'s very political global warming group called the International Panel on Climate Change (the IPCC).

Even so, the world and our Congress seem to be hell bent on stifling any human activity through various means of extinguishing any and all carbon output by mankind. All you keep hearing is things like: "it is a moral imperative" and "we are at the brink".

I just think that these "summer lows", like we've seen this year, are another strike against the "sky is falling" mentality from the environmentalists and those who keep claiming that we are running out of time on Climate Change. That's why I think that increasingly, as shown in one poll after another, people aren't buying the impending stories of doom and disaster anymore.

As soon as the Democrats get their "leftist" brand of health care reform rammed down our throats, they are going to ram their hands into our back pockets and steal any cash they can take with their ideologically-based Cap and Trade legislation. That's because, to them, it is truly a "moral imperative" and because "we need to act now" to save the planet.

But, surprisingly, the saving of the planet won't be done immediately. Like the immediacy of health care reform, Cap and Trade isn't scheduled to start rolling out until 2013 and beyond. So, where's the emergency? When you really think about it, that 2013 date would be the same year that Obama could or would assume his second term in Office. That, to me, says that Health Care Reform and Cap and Trade are less about emergencies and more about the politics of an anti-human expansion and an anti-capitalism agenda. A lot of what is behind Global Warming is the redistribution of wealth from the richer counties to the poorest of nations. For progressives, it is just an expansion of what they have been doing on a national level for years.

The obvious calculus that is being used by the Democrats is to avoid any economic crippling rise in energy bills and health care costs until Mr. Obama has his shot for a second term in office. Don't ya think?