Right now the Midwest and Northeast could use some of Gore’s hot air. Even in Florida I’m sitting by a fire looking at 29 degrees and frost outside. But it’s been said that global warming works in mysterious ways.

It should be clear now why Gore and his cohorts held the big climate conference in Bali instead of, say, Buffalo. He caught a lot of criticism for the amount of carbon the conference generated, but can you imagine how much the participants’ enthusiasm might have been dimmed by sub-zero temperatures. If not, consider the negative image of parka-clad television reporters standing in knee-deep snow.

There has been a lot of ink this past summer about how the arctic ice is melting more than usual. One fear is that the melting sea ice is threatening the polar bears. But I don’t see any concern for the seals. It seems to me that the seals would be happy to see fewer polar bears lurking around their habitat.

The glowarm alarmists are pressing forward with their efforts to impose economy threatening restrictions on carbon dioxide emissions despite substantial evidence that the global warming trend ended in 1998. It’s interesting to note that the glowarmers are trying to change the name of their movement (religion?) from “global warming” to “climate change.” Perhaps they are aware of the recent cooling trend but don’t want to acknowledge it directly.