Christopher Horner: the fallacy that is global warming

“Catastrophe sells,” said Christopher Horner, author of “The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming (and Environmentalism).” At a Heritage Foundation event, Horner said the recent wave of “global warming enthusiasts” are encouraged by “a multi-million dollar global warming industry adding new urgency to the ritual shriek of ‘we must act now,’ as they scramble to impose a costly regime that imposes mandates, subsidies and energy taxes both direct and regulatory to pay for them.””
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“After all, there is a reason the media don’t report on the global warming industries; admitted objectives, extreme statements, and their tactics,” said Horner. “How can we predict the weather ten decades away if we can’t predict 10 days from now?” As a result, Horner believes, “environmental alarmists have become like car alarms that no one listens to anymore.”

Global Warming Update: CNN Drops Science Unit and Miles O'Brien | NewsBusters.org

Of course, the cynic in me wonders if this move has anything to do with the decreased interest in global warming by the public as a result of the economic downturn.
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After all, O'Brien represented one of that networks staunchest alarmists, and has been the subject of many NewsBusters articles. Some of my favorites include O'Brien:

• Claiming that scientists who dispute anthropogenic global warming "are bought and paid for by the fossil fuel industry"
• Sleeping during a senate hearing about how the media cover global warming
• Having some combative interviews with Sen. James Inhofe (R-Ok.) here and here
• Telling then Congressman J.C. Watts, "The scientific debate is over"
• Calling climate realists "dead-enders," a "tiny fraction of a minority," and a "very small fringe"
• Suggesting climate realists attending a global warming conference are flat earthers. 

Needless to say, O'Brien has been the source of a lot of guffaws and chuckles for climate realists the world over.