George F. Will | Newsweek Voices

Within the lifetimes of most Americans now living, today's media-manufactured alarm about man-made global warming might be an embarrassing memory. The nation will then be better off because Bush—during whose administration the embarrassing planet warmed not at all—refused to be stampeded toward costly "solutions" to a supposed crisis that might be chimerical, and that, if real, could be adapted for considerably less cost than will be sunk in efforts at prevention.

Michigan: Bitter-cold January one for the record books | Leelanau County News

It was so cold, in fact, that Jon Smith of Jon’s Barber Shop declared that Suttons Bay had frozen over late Monday and early Tuesday, more than three weeks before normal.

I'm seeing this "even if" phrasing more and more these days

Even if you count yourself among the category of folks who shake their heads and roll their eyeballs at the concept of human-triggered global warming, studies of past climate regimes in the Southwest show the region is prone to very long-term droughts that would make the Dust Bowl look like a cool spell.