It is funny how global warming has dropped off the front pages of the paper like the value my of now meager portfolio. It seems to me that if the threat of global warming was killing polar bears as we speak, if we were less than ten years away from irreversible global doom, if the rising tides were going to wash across the streets of Manhattan, then shouldn't the global warming alarm be sounding just as loud when the Dow is at 9,000 as it is when the Dow is at 14,000? The alarmists seem to have been pushed not just below the fold, but off the pages altogether. Maybe global warming isn't quite as bad when people are more worried about the mortgage than the polar caps. Never mind the data that show the oceans actually cooled over the past few years...that never stopped the global alarmists. But the Dow dropping into the tank, now we have something a little more pressing to occupy our time.
I guess when $ 4.00 coffee at Starbuck's is no longer an affordable luxury, global warming isn't either. Maybe Al Gore is too busy trying to figure out to recoup his losses to blab on about his latest weird science. If nothing else I hope he is bawling out Barney Frank and Chris Dodd for being asleep at the switch. I guess he lost more in any given day than I did over the past month. When you have that much at stake, the polar bears are probably better swimmers than we thought.
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