Irony

So on the same day that the House passes the biggest tax hike in the history of mankind--in the name of "saving the environment," mind you--the Wall Street Journal publishes this article which elucidates how completely out of whack our country's liberal elitists are in relation to the rest of the free world on the topic of global warming. A few prime cuts from the article, penned by Kimberley Strassel:

The number of [global warming] skeptics, far from shrinking, is swelling. Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe now counts more than 700 scientists who disagree with the U.N. -- 13 times the number who authored the U.N.'s 2007 climate summary for policymakers. Joanne Simpson, the world's first woman to receive a Ph.D. in meteorology, expressed relief upon her retirement last year that she was finally free to speak "frankly" of her nonbelief. Dr. Kiminori Itoh, a Japanese environmental physical chemist who contributed to a U.N. climate report, dubs man-made warming "the worst scientific scandal in history." Norway's Ivar Giaever, Nobel Prize winner for physics, decries it as the "new religion." A group of 54 noted physicists, led by Princeton's Will Happer, is demanding the American Physical Society revise its position that the science is settled. (Both Nature and Science magazines have refused to run the physicists' open letter.)

But what about all those bloviating, sanctimonious editorials in the NY Times and other leftist rags in recent years, all of which assured us that adopting the sort of legislation passed by the House today would restore the USA's standing as the leader of the free world? Only through implementation of responsible measures such as 'cap and trade' laws, the Times assured us, would we finally be able to rid ourselves of the taint of those eight abominable years of George W. Bush. How then this new trend, which stands inexplicably askance of the Paper of Record? Reading on:

The collapse of the "consensus" has been driven by reality. The inconvenient truth is that the earth's temperatures have flat-lined since 2001, despite growing concentrations of C02. Peer-reviewed research has debunked doomsday scenarios about the polar ice caps, hurricanes, malaria, extinctions, rising oceans. A global financial crisis has politicians taking a harder look at the science that would require them to hamstring their economies to rein in carbon.

Golly Gee. Apparently the Sulzberger Gazette either didn't know what it was talking about, or flagrantly lied. No worries. It's not like either of those possibilities has ever happened before, or ever will again.

European nations and other Western countries have suffered a century of socialism. They've tolerated decades of envirofacists, and now stare the imminent threat of islamofacism in the face. And quite frankly, they no longer have the time or energy for the degree of wilfully suspended disbelief required to maintain the Kabuki of global warming. They especially don't have time for a bill that, according the the Heritage Foundation, will eventually cost the average family over $6,000 in additional taxes per year.

Europe has been over to stupidity, and it sucks. I pray we are not required to endure even a fraction of the suffering and misery experienced by our cousins across the ocean before we come to our senses.