"Tough, tough, tough winter" in North Dakota

FARGO, N.D. (AP)--A North Dakota State University Extension Service veterinarian estimates about 80,000 cattle likely have been lost to the harsh winter and spring flooding.
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The winter was long and farmers came into it with low feed supplies after years of drought, he said. Some of the cattle were older, kept to feed over the winter until prices improved, he said.

"It was just a tough, tough, tough winter on our livestock producers," Stoltenow said.

"Thinking" like climate heroes?

“VCU-Q students are also thinking like climate heroes,” Blake said referring to some individuals around the world who responded to the IJNEP call by making exceptional things, high profile expedition and environmental activism to raise awareness on the effects of climate change. He said interior design students are exploring a design of temporary housing for low- income families constructed from old shipping containers so that this can be movable anytime and can be positioned side by side to create a multi-storey complex.

Jonah Goldberg: Plan to combat global warming? Pie in the sky - Los Angeles Times

Now, I am more skeptical about the threat of global warming than Manzi is, never mind the Al Gore chorus. But let us assume the chorus is right and it is the moral equivalent of a war for our very survival as a civilization. The question remains: Why? Why this approach? Why see global warming as an excuse to expand government regulation and taxation rather than invest in problem-solving?