Fed and Ca laws still deal w/nonexistent gw

Lest we forget, the supposed crisis of global warming, which I've posted below as being a nonexistent problem, prompted the state of California to pass, and Congress to partly pass, onerous and economy-killing legislation to supposedly "fight" it. Well, whether it's George Will or Mark Steyn, pointing out that there's been no net warming for over a decade, elicits snark, derision and insult as a substitute for actually addressing the underlying issue. Here's some of Steyn's comments from NRO:

" But, if you mean the argument on "global warming", my general line is this: For the last century, we've had ever so slight warming trends and ever so slight cooling trends every 30 years or so, and I don't think either are anything worth collapsing the global economy over.

"Things warmed up a bit in the decades before the late Thirties. Why? I dunno. The Versailles Treaty? The Charleston?

"Then from 1940 to 1970 there was a slight cooling trend. In its wake, Lowell Ponte (who I believe is an expert climatologist and, therefore, should have been heeded) wrote his bestseller, The Cooling: Has the new ice age already begun? Can we survive?

"From 1970 to 1998 there was a slight warming trend, and now there's a slight cooling trend again. And I'm not fussed about it either way."

"But I like the way Professor Ian Plimer puts it:

"I’m a natural scientist. I’m out there every day, buried up to my neck in sh**, collecting raw data. And that’s why I’m so sceptical of these models, which have nothing to do with science or empiricism but are about torturing the data till it finally confesses. None of them predicted this current period we’re in of global cooling. There is no problem with global warming. It stopped in 1998. The last two years of global cooling have erased nearly 30 years of temperature increase."

Steyn: "In the mid-nineties, which climatologist and which model predicted the cooling trend of the turn of the century and the oughts? And, if they didn't, on what basis do you trust their claims for 2050 or 2100?"