Late for a party? Miss a meeting? Forget to pay your rent? Blame climate change;
everyone else is doing it. From an increase in severe acne to all societal collapses
since the beginning of time, just about everything gone wrong in the world today
can be attributed to climate change. The Heritage Foundation blog has listed 100
storylines blaming climate change as the problem.

The truth is the earth’s average temperature has been increasing and decreasing
since the beginning of time. There’s an underlying assumption that human
activity is causing the climate to change in many of these stories, but the
scientific consensus on what causes climate change is anything but a consensus.
Temperatures have risen and fallen many times before.

The other implication of the list is that a reduction in Co2 with cap and trade
policies like Waxman-Markey and Boxer-Kerry will cure problems as disparate as
hurricanes, wars, crime, hunger and…cow infertility. The problem is that no one
can actually claim that a reduction of Co2 will prevent these occurrences; one
can only speculate that they will be worse in a world that has more rather than
less Co2. Given cap and trade’s massive economic consequences and negligible
effects on the earth’s temperature, this is a bold and potentially very costly
speculation.

Source; The Heritage Foundation blog, “Global Warming Ate My Homework: 100
Things Blamed on Global Warming,” 11/17/09