You might think: It's my property! The problem is - your neighbor has the law backing him up, according to the April 7 "CBS Evening News." Sounds like a case of environmentalism gone wild, right?

"Richard Treanor lives across the fence, drives a hybrid car," CBS correspondent Ben Tracy said. "Ten years ago he planted these redwoods to provide privacy. Now they had his neighbor seeing red."

Bullying bloggers are no strangers to online media - especially when they're Single Issue Fanatics (SIF). "They're deeply emotional, they're bullies, and they often don't get out enough," the BBC's Adam Curtis noted here last year. This week, campaigner Jo Abbess is boasting about how she browbeat the BBC into modifying a story about Global Warming. The BBC has defended the changes to its story.

Abbess swung into action on Friday after the BBC's Roger Harrabin reported comments by World Meteorological Organisation secretary general Michel Jarraud. In a story titled "Global temperatures 'to decrease'", Harrabin wrote:

"The World Meteorological Organisation's secretary-general, Michel Jarraud, told the BBC it was likely that La Niña would continue into the summer. This would mean global temperatures have not risen since 1998, prompting some to question climate change theory."

More than occasionally I read articles or hear pleas for environmental change so we can "stop global warming." The climate is changing. There are natural systems that have been set in motion and there is absolutely nothing we can do to stop it. Yes, I agree that we can stop making it worse by reducing what we put in the air that doesn't belong there. But, even that is a bit tongue in cheek. The heaviest poluters simply buy carbon credits, allowing them to continue poluting the environment because someone else is doing something good. Well, one does not exactly equal the other. It will be decades before we can really do anything meaningful about the levels of polutants we put in the air. But, even that is simply a drop in the bucket. Factor in the growing population. Factor in China and India's growth into industrialization. Factor in the slashing and burning of the rain forests in South America to make room for more feed lots for cows which are spewing methane, a far worse green house gas than CO2.

George Bush appears to have beaten Al Gore again.

In very same week that Gore launched a $300 million public relations campaign to convince Americans that “together we can solve the climate crisis,” prominent climate alarmist Tom Wigley essentially endorsed President Bush’s approach to global warming, while criticizing that of Gore’s co-Nobelist, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

In an article entitled “Dangerous Assumptions” published in Nature (April 3), Wigley writes that the technology challenge presented by the goal of stabilizing atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations “has been seriously underestimated by the IPCC, diverting attention from policies that could directly stimulate technological innovation.”

Gasoline prices flirt with record levels thanks to low refinery utilization, reports Bloomberg. More capacity is on the way: The WSJ (sub reqd) looks at the mammoth Port Arthur refinery and how it will make heavy, sour crude oil attractive. What’s not attractive is Mexico’s political interference with its oil industry, says a WSJ editorial (sub req.) Only by freeing monopoly Pemex up to competition will Mexico again be a world-class producer. Meanwhile, oil prices are outstripping natural gas prices—driving many gas companies to ramp up crude exploration, in the WSJ (sub reqd.) Though natural gas will have its day: Power company Sempra has quietly laid the foundations for the natural gas infrastructure needed to run new power-plants, in the WSJ (sub reqd.)