Associated Press: the end of the world is nigh!

The Associated Press has gone apoplectic in its most recent article on global warming, declaring that the end is nigh! Obama must save us!  Ignore the deep freeze that is blanketing huge swaths of the United States.

When Bill Clinton took office in 1993, global warming was a slow-moving environmental problem that was easy to ignore. Now it is a ticking time bomb that President-elect Barack Obama can’t avoid.

Since Clinton’s inauguration, summer Arctic sea ice has lost the equivalent of Alaska, California and Texas. The 10 hottest years on record have occurred since Clinton’s second inauguration. Global warming is accelerating. Time is close to running out, and Obama knows it.

“The time for delay is over; the time for denial is over,” he said on Tuesday after meeting with former Vice President Al Gore, who won a Nobel Peace Prize for his work on global warming. “We all believe what the scientists have been telling us for years now that this is a matter of urgency and national security and it has to be dealt with in a serious way.”

But there are powerful political and economic realities that must be quickly overcome for Obama to succeed. Despite the urgency he expresses, it’s not at all clear that he and Congress will agree on an approach during a worldwide financial crisis in time to meet some of the more crucial deadlines.

Obama is pushing changes in the way Americans use energy, and produce greenhouse gases, as part of what will be a massive economic stimulus. He called it an opportunity “to re-power America.”

After years of inaction on global warming, 2009 might be different. Obama replaces a president who opposed mandatory cuts of greenhouse gas pollution and it appears he will have a willing Congress. Also, next year, diplomats will try to agree on a major new international treaty to curb the gases that promote global warming.

“We need to start in January making significant changes,” Gore said in a recent telephone interview with The Associated Press. “This year coming up is the most important opportunity the world has ever had to make progress in really solving the climate crisis.”

Will Obama actually implement anti-business global warming policies on US businesses during one of the worse economic downturns in our recent history?  If he buys into the global warming lie. Keep in mind, though, he supports a bailout for US automakers who produce cars that create greenhouse gases.

According to the AP, the United States must take drastic action, even though it’s China that has doubled its greenhouse gases:

U.S. emissions have increased by 20 percent since 1992. China has more than doubled its carbon dioxide pollution in that time. World carbon dioxide emissions have grown faster than scientists’ worst-case scenarios. Methane, the next most potent greenhouse gas, suddenly is on the rise again and scientists fear that vast amounts of the trapped gas will escape from thawing Arctic permafrost.

And get a load of this pretzel logic:

Mother Nature, of course, is oblivious to the federal government’s machinations. Ironically, 2008 is on pace to be a slightly cooler year in a steadily rising temperature trend line. Experts say it’s thanks to a La Nina weather variation. While skeptics are already using it as evidence of some kind of cooling trend, it actually illustrates how fast the world is warming.

Yes, in the AP’s alternate universe, a cooling trend is more proof that the earth is warming even faster than previously thought. Don’t try to understand their logic. You’ll just sprain something.

So, why all the panic when the earth is cooling and large  numbers of climate scientists think global warming a sham?

More than 650 scientists from around the world dispute the claims made by the United Nations and former Vice President Al Gore about global warming, saying that science does not support that climate change is a manmade phenomenon, according to a posting on the Senate environmental committee’s press blog.

Will all these global warming alarmists listen to these scientists? Not a chance because global warming is no longer about science. It’s about power and control over large numbers of people and their behavior.  Global warming is nothing but a tool that’s being used by those who seek power. Don’t buy into the fearmongering.