Global warming: a death in the family?

October 24, 3:25 PMDallas Libertarian ExaminerGarry Reed

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We've all grimly observed how a family member steps up to become the official spokesperson when there's a death in a celebrated family.

We saw it when SuperMegaRockStar Michael Jackson died.

We saw it when left liberal mediahead Brian Williams gravely chronicled the impending death of the SuperMegaRockStar Godfather of his political family, Ted Kennedy, from brain cancer, on his NBC nightly Newscasts.

Now Williams is back, forced to step up again to report the lingering demise of yet another celebrated SuperMegaRockStar member of the Progressive Family, Global Warming.

A report from the Pew Research Center titled "Fewer Americans See Solid Evidence of Global Warming" was released on October 22.

It recounted, in harsh statistical details, how America's belief in Global Warming has dropped from 70 percent to only 57 percent in the past three years, and how people who don't believe in climate change at all has doubled in that time.

(Note that "climate change" is the catchall cover-up code phrase for Global Warming, which positions politicos to spend massive amounts of our money no matter what the weather does.)

It was almost painful to watch Williams briefly announce the devastating news and quickly move on. It was like witnessing a retired matador-turned-announcer for the National Arena Bullfighting League courageously calling a game and admitting that the bull was winning.

This must be seen as a blow to True Believers who adopted Global Warming as their personal secular messiah since it dovetailed so perfectly with their catechism of Mother Earth Good, Humankind Bad.

It may also be a blow to the overweening overreaching Progressive ruling class that has long viewed Global Warming as a contrived mechanism for leaping from the puny platform of America onto the global stage where they can strut their stuff in search of power, wealth, and ego fulfillment at our expense.

All this just as President Obama prepares to traipse off to Copenhagen where he's likely to sign a proposal designed to create an international "cap and trade" scheme (which libertarians call "cap and tax") to control carbon emissions.

But wait. The sub headline of that Pew report is this: Modest Support for "Cap and Trade" Policy.

Obama and his progressive pals will likely ignore it and press onward for cap and trade. And libertarians can hope that ignoring the wishes of his fellow citizens will have the same result as Woodrow Wilson ignoring the lack of support for a League of Nations, or LBJ ignoring the lack of support for the Vietnam War, or Ford ignoring the real reasons for inflation by wearing Whip Inflation Now buttons.

So why this dramatic loss of faith in Global Warming? Has the virus of science reinfected Global Warming to spread its plague of contagious rationality throughout its body of research, driving out politicized opportunism and political correctness?

Progressives will not give it up any time soon. In fact, we may have already heard what will become the Official Climate Changer's Spin. Brian Williams said it at the end of his Nightly News report:

"In a down economy people are less sensitive to the environment."

A remix on the old mantra, "it's the economy, stupid."

Or could it possibly be that people are just finally wising up?

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