A recent issue of Time magazine has a cover story about global warming. How original. It’s just one of hundreds of messages that drip on our heads and our children’s heads each day about global warming.

Drip-drip-drip.

Hundreds of other messages drip on us about Big Oil, evil corporations, rampant racism, rising income inequality, and the glories of diversity. The drops come from the media, K-12 schools, universities, and, amazingly, even from corporate advertising.

Drip-drip-drip.

The torrent contains some facts, but most of it is hyperbole and hysteria. I’d rather be water-boarded than endure this form of water torture.

BOFFINS fear Arctic ice melting could see the rise of a polar bear and grizzly bear hybrid - dubbed the 'grolar bear.' The effects of climate change means the hybrid bears could become more common as their habitats increasingly overlap due to global warning. ...And he delivered a stark warning of what the future holds. He believes that by THIS summer there could be no ice at the North Pole. ...And Dr Divoky had a message for climate change sceptics, saying: "Having a polar bear show up in your front yard is one of the more compelling pieces of evidence that climate change is real."

The Sun: Grolar bears are global warning

Koalas are threatened by the rising level of carbon dioxide pollution in the atmosphere because it saps nutrients from the eucalyptus leaves they feed on, a researcher said Wednesday.

CNN.com: Koalas under threat from toxic eucalyptus leaves

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It seems that Newsweek's "science" editrix, Sharon Begley, wants you to make the leap that the Gangotri glacier, one of the largest in the Himalayas, has been shrinking for the last 25 years at three times the historical norm because of Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW).

In the May 5, 2008, issue of Newsweek, in the article "Heat your vegetables," she begins her halfwitted rant with, "Whenever global warming began looking too bleak..."  She then takes a swipe at the coal industry, which no doubt generates the electricity to her power-sucking laptop, before rapping their knuckles for not noticing that a glacier is melting:

One of the Himalayas' largest, [Gangotri glacier] has been shrinking since the late 18th century. But over the last 25 years it has shrunk about half a mile, a rate three times the historical norm... "Without the ice melt, the Ganges and the Yellow rivers could dry up in the dry season, shrinking harvests," says Lester Brown, president of the Earth Policy Institute. "If the Ganges flows only part of the year, double cropping [in which farmers plant rice and wheat in back-to-back growing seasons, and which underlies India's green revolution] breaks down."

From carbon footprint calculators to electricity-free weddings, the media's promotion of anti-global warming hysteria warmed up with the approach of Earth Day on Tuesday.

ABC's Good Morning America was actually running a Countdown to Earth Day every morning, beginning last week, as if we were all like kids waiting for Christmas Day. Maybe that's how it is at Al Gore's house.

The New York Times Magazine on Sunday devoted the entire issue to a "low-carbon catalog" of ideas for the environmentally inclined. However, as Folio magazine notes, it was printed on new, wasteful paper, not recycled pulp.

Ranting that Passes for Journalism

Time now for another deconstruction of Newsweek's alarmist-in-Chief, Sharon Begley.

Yes folks, this time she's equated airport delays with the dire consequences of global---oops, I mean climate change. She's also taken notes from Gore's new vocabulary that you can't use “global warming” because “climate change” can apply to any weather scenario.

Yesterday it was raining. Today it's sunny. That's called climate change, but Begley is again worried about those of us who don't care about global warming and she has a theory:

Memo to everyone who doesn’t care about climate change—you know who you are—because you figure 1) more heat waves? I have A.C.; 2) rising sea levels? I don’t live in Bangladesh, and I have enough money to keep rebuilding the sea walls around my weekend place; 3) more droughts and floods, causing food shortages? I won’t have any problem buying whatever I need. Scientists have identified consequences of climate change that you won’t be able to buy your way out of: the worst airplane delays you can imagine.