FOR YOUR SCHEDULING CONVENIENCE – AT 8:30 A.M. ET:  Reader James Croak refers us to the following announcement from Washington:

The following Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works hearings have been postponed due to inclement weather this week:

- The Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works will hold a hearing entitled, "Global Warming Impacts, Including Public Health, in the United States."

COMMENT:  Pay no attention to the iceberg, Captain Smith.  The Titanic is unsinkable. 

What is outrageous is the anti-intellectualism on the global-warming issue.  Despite the piling of evidence that the books were cooked and that measurements may have been wrong, the global warmers push on, not feeling any need to pause and study. 

The science is settled.  That's what we're told.  And we were once told that the world is flat, that the Sun revolves around the Earth, and that heart victims have to avoid all exercise.

Scientists who warn us that the global warming data is unreliable are dismissed as the equivalent of Holocaust deniers.  Apparently, the new definition of a true scientist is someone who agrees with Al Gore.

You can be sure that, if you really looked closely, you'd find a lot of money involved in this issue.  But the fashionable ones don't want to look too closely.

February 10, 2010