Editor's Note: John Coleman's (pictured) Comments Before the San Diego Chamber of Commerce

You may want to give credit where credit is due to Al Gore and his global warming campaign the next time you fill your car with gasoline, because there is a direct connection between Global Warming and four dollar a gallon gas.  It is shocking, but true, to learn that the entire Global Warming frenzy is based on the environmentalist’s attack on fossil fuels, particularly gasoline.  All this big time science, international meetings, thick research papers, dire threats for the future; all of it, comes down to their claim that the carbon dioxide in the exhaust from your car and in the smoke stacks from our power plants is destroying the climate of planet Earth.  What an amazing fraud; what a scam.

The future of our civilization lies in the balance.

Republicans finally have a winning argument on a big issue, and they'd better make the most of it. It starts with high gasoline prices--the single most infuriating issue to voters these days--but doesn't end there.

Democrats are not being blamed for causing the price of gasoline to reach $4 a gallon, at least by the public and at least for now. Where Democrats have stumbled embarrassingly is in their campaign to persuade the public that the American oil industry is the chief culprit. A Gallup national poll in May found only 20 percent blame the oil companies for gouging, down from 34 percent a year ago.

Where Republicans have succeeded is in selling their solution to soaring gas prices: drilling for oil offshore and on federal lands, areas now off limits. In the Gallup survey, support for drilling in precisely these areas jumped from 41 percent in 2007 to 57 percent in May.

During last week’s debate over the Lieberman-Warner climate bill, Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid hyperventilated that global warming is “the most important issue facing the world today.” So how does Reid get to work every day? In a huge, armor-plated, 13 mpg Chevrolet Suburban SUV provided by Capitol security police.

Obviously, climate change is not as important an issue as the security of our leaders – otherwise the good senator from Nevada (where yet another Suburban is waiting for him when he flies back home) would be driving (or biking) himself in a smaller vehicle.

As a Detroit News colleague of mine likes to say: “I’ll believe climate change is a crisis when the people who say it’s a crisis start acting like it’s a crisis.”  Source

For anyone interested in M. Night Shyamalan's doomsday flick about Mother Earth turning her back on humankind because, well, we're carbon-spewing creatures of the worst kind, Rotten Tomatoes has the latest results from its sampling of critics: It's really rotten.

No surprise there. And for an interesting read, check out some of the critical reviews there and find out why trees that kill (yes, the plants are releasing a neurotoxin that makes you suicidal) just isn't very happening.

In an interview with Reuters, Shyamalan said he wanted to “play on people's fears for the future about such things as terrorism and climate change.” But the critics had hoped the famed director would have changed his tactics since 'Lady in the Water.' So unlike the weather, Shyamalan remains predictable.