Rather than getting our news about the imaginary climate change crisis from the authoritarian propagandists who run the mainstream media, we would be well advised to turn to sources more grounded in reality. South Africa's Engineering News, for example:

During 2008, have we seen many stories in the newspapers about 2007 being particularly warm as a result of global warming?

During 2006, the doomsters were predicting that 2007 would be the hottest year on record, so why have we seen no reports about this?

The answer is simple — 2007 turned out to be the coolest year for 30 years. It is also the case that there has been no global warming since 1998. In fact, since 1998, there has been steady cooling.

Even more dramatic is the fact that the most recent computer model predictions indicate that there will be no more global warming for the next ten years. But the doomsters say that, after this ten-year period, global warming will come back with a vengeance. Why?

This answer is simple too: Because authoritarians and corrupt profiteers have invested far too much in the global warming hoax to admit that not only is human activity not causing global warming, currently there is no global warming.

This is a shame, because warming periods in the past were unsurprisingly associated with economic expansion. Humans are like most other life forms in that we fare better in a warmer world.

Nonetheless, South Africa prepares to drink the Kool-Aid by imposing a tax that will mean a 10% increase in electricity costs. This will kill two birds with one stone, enriching the bureaucracy, while keeping people poor enough to think they need the very government that is holding them down. But it will have no effect whatsoever on the climate.

On a tip from Bergbikr. Cross-posted at Moonbattery.