While skidding my way downtown recently, I thought it bizarre that large segments of the American public still believe in global warming when in Chicago the temperature was 22 degrees; Duluth, 12; Fargo, 9; Pittsburgh, 20; Albany, 19. Des Moines was balmy at 27. And this in April.
Wind chills reached 70 below in the Midwest this winter, killing tens of thousands of cattle and forming ice covers four feet thick. There have been countless power outages, snowbound motorists and disrupted businesses and schools.
But the swelter freaks have convinced Congress to budget $2.1 billion annually to study global climate change. Many environmentalists and these political swelter freaks react harshly to criticism, because their predictions of imminent catastrophe, even without scientific foundation, reap significant rewards. “Even truth gets drowned when gold comes to the surface,” the proverb says.
