you know i'm still trying to figure out something to say about global warming. but surely we might start getting a little worried about the teenage-girl-with-pms hysteria of even the "responsible" media:

Climate stress may well represent a challenge to international security just as dangerous — and more intractable — than the arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union during the cold war.

ok. the threat of the arms race was more or less the annihilation of the planet. whose model shows that outcome? we're in the phase of escalating the apocalyptic claptrap into a nonstop screech, running around in circles screaming: the rapture religion of the educated left. we need to get the next phase, and you're going to find in a few years that we've calmed down a bit, had our midol.

p.s. this summer you're going to see, in cities all over the country, americans gazing up at a gigantic flickering image of al gore and chanting slogans in unison.