No Global War on Global Warming

Whatever happened to the Regime's "one percent doctrine"? Remember?

An operating principle [of] . . . Vice President Dick Cheney articulated shortly after 9/11: in [Ron] Suskind's words, ''if there was even a 1 percent chance of terrorists getting a weapon of mass destruction . . . the United States must now act as if it were a certainty.'' He quotes Mr. Cheney saying that it's not about ''our analysis,'' it's about ''our response,'' and argues that this conviction effectively sidelines the traditional policymaking process of analysis and debate, making suspicion, not evidence, the new threshold for action.

Don't think; just act. The US as the world's greatest and largest, nuclear-armed three year old.

I still find myself wondering about that doctrine when I read headlines like this: "Arctic sea ice shrinks to record low".

[Mark Serreze, a senior research scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center] said in a telephone interview, while some natural variability is involved in the melting "we simply can't explain everything through natural processes."

"It is very strong evidence that we are starting to see an effect of greenhouse warming," he said.

The puzzling thing, he said, is that the melting is actually occurring faster than computer climate models have predicted.

Several years ago he would have predicted a complete melt of Arctic sea ice in summer would occur by the year 2070 to 2100, Serreze said. But at the rates now occurring, a complete melt could happen by 2030, he said Friday.

OK-- actually, of course, I'm not wondering about the Regime much anymore. They have no actual loyalty to or care for this nation-- nor, for that matter, the planet. Twenty-three years and counting, plus or minus. Long time in American politics. (Say, how are they polling in South Carolina these days?) Plenty of time to make and enjoy kaboodles of money for their uber-wealthy friends and masters.


To be fair, I do not take much comfort in knowing that nations such as Russia, Canada and Denmark(!) are all seeking to lay claim to as much of the Arctic Circle as possible, since retreating sea ice makes exploitation of likely gas & oil reserves there more feasible. If the globe hands you lemons, hide the sugar.

Because after all, we need to release still more carbon into the atmosphere, don't we? There's a Global War on, alright.