A version of this article was originally published on Investors.com.
By Bill Wilson
You can’t argue with global warming zealots: Whatever the thermometer reads, they’re right and you’re wrong. Whatever the short-term, intermediate or long-term data suggest, all these eco-radicals see is additional proof of their distorted worldview.
Hot summers? Mild winters? That’s global warming. Mild summers? Frigid winters? That’s global warming, too.
You see, if you’re a disciple of climate change, it all makes perfect sense — every measurement is further validation, and every validation is an excuse to impose costlier obligations on taxpayers (and more onerous restrictions on what’s left of our free market).
Responding to an unseasonably cool summer in New England (and predictions of a colder-than-usual winter), columnist Tom Keane of the Boston Globe assured his liberal readers that “climate change proceeds apace.”
“We’re like a guy with his head in the refrigerator while his house is burning down, thinking nothing’s wrong,” Keane wrote.
Never mind that satellite data released this spring by NASA showed no statistical change in the Earth’s temperature over the past 17-1/2 years.
