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As the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancun concludes on Friday, December 10, history can teach us a few things about the surest and quickest way to achieve progress in tackling global warming. In an interview last year about the previous UN summit, NASA's Jim Hansen suggested that only radical change would work, and that it would be better for the planet if the conference ended in collapse, rather than a flawed deal. Hansen claimed that dealing with climate change “is analogous to the issue of slavery faced by Abraham Lincoln… On those kind of issues… you can't say...

CLIMATE has always changed. Up to the mid-70s it was believed that the earth was about to suffer disastrous cooling as a result of human activity. Some of the keenest promoters of this hypothesis are today the greatest, most influential advocates of the unproven hypothesis of man-made global warming. The CIA compiled a report then which contains such remarks as: "Scientists are confident that, unless man is able to effectively modify the climate then Canada, the European part of the Soviet Union and major areas of northern China will again be covered with 100 to 200 feet of ice and...

We're well into the Christmas season, and if the spirit of the Christ child is under assault we have an abundance of air and wind, a lot of it vile and foul. One of the study commissions at the United Nations, perhaps stacked with vegetarians overdosing on tofu and bean sprouts, concludes that the flatulence of cows is more damaging to the environment than automobiles. Poor Bossy, contentedly chewing her cud and minding her own business, now exposed as just another scapegoat (scapecow?) to blame for global warming. But it's not just cows. Some of our most distinguished statespersons are...