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[Michael E. Zimmerman] McKibben does not go so far as to describe the violence to which his technocratic regime would have to go in order to win “consensus” and to enforce on the entire human population the new rules of the game. Come to think of it, this new kind of politics doesn’t look so new after all.

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The pre-eminent poster child for sore losers, Al Gore, spent his post-2000 election free time morphing a natural phenomenon into man-made crisis of apocalyptic proportions. The pied piper of global warming padded his pockets by $100 million creating an avenue for global wealth redistribution and research grants for scientific sell-outs willing to ride the bandwagon following the carbon footprint of Al's private jet.

Letter: The snake oil may be on the other side of global warming debate

When I was in Switzerland in 2000, our guide told us the tree line (level at which trees can not survive above that elevation because of the cold) was 1,000 feet higher in the mid-second millennium than it is today. I found that the differential temperature in 1,000 feet is 3.5 degrees. (Be warned: I also got my numbers from the Internet.) If the world warms 3.5 degrees, we should be right where we were in mid-second millennium with the tree line in Switzerland 1,000 feet higher than today. That was when Columbus sailed for the Americas. I don't recall reading anywhere that he found the ocean to be 60 or even feet 16 feet highe