CNSNews.com - Environmentalists Say Cold December Temperatures Could Provide ‘Lesson’ About Global Warming

(CNSNews.com) – (EDITOR'S NOTE: A previous version of this story incorrectly identified the Natural Resources Defense Council and the the National Wildlife Federation.) December was one of the coldest on record, but that does not undercut the science on global warming, which is “settled,” according to representatives from the National Wildlife Federation (NWF) and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).

NRDC Director of Government Affairs David Goldston told CNSNews.com Tuesday that the “cold winter” weather could teach people a lesson about global warming -- that “weather and climate aren’t the same thing.”

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And the consequences of all of this nonsense? It will be expensive, and you and your kids will pay the price down the road, long after Obama has left office. Which is, in a way, what makes this move so devilishly brilliant. The president has written yet another I.O.U., one that helps restore his “green” credibility (which was so damaged after the “Hopenhagen” fiasco), and the bill for implementing this utopian vision won’t come due until long after he returns to community organizing.