Michael Fumento

Some global warming skeptics have been using the remarkably cold winter and record snowfalls to attack the idea of global warming. Believers are crying foul. "You're confusing weather with climate!" they insist.Yes, global warming does cause cannibalism!

And they're right. But they invented the game a long time ago and have been deftly playing it ever since.

Among the complainers is Pulitzer Prize winning Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson, "The Earth is really, really big," he condescendingly but correctly observes in a nationally syndicated column. "It's so big that it can be cold here and warm elsewhere - and this is the key concept - at the same time. Even if it were unusually cold throughout the continental U.S., that still represents less than 2% of the Earth's surface."

He makes other points, too, but what he somehow misses is that the warmists never hesitate to use any unusual phenomena to assert their case. "Any?" you ask with incredulity. "Any!" I respond with assurance. Check out the list at this Web site. One glance blows you away. It includes everything from "acne" to "yellow fever," with "short-nosed dogs endangered" in between.

Moreover, time and again the warmists have use terribly cold weather and blizzards to say "global warming is at it again!" and that includes a Bill McKibben column that appeared in the Washington Post just five days before Robinson's column!