Someone told them

Crap, the dude getting millions from Cato found the news today, so we'll expect that the endless fallback has restarted:

1.) It's not happening
2.) It's happening, but it's not us
3.) OK, OK, it's us, but it might actually be good
(the current status for "Cathago delenda est", uh, I mean Cato is somewhere between 2 and 3)
4.) Well, even if it's bad in some places it's too late and we can't do anything about it.

"Russia’s recent ratification of the Protocol [was] only signed on in exchange for European support of Russia’s admission to the World Trade Organization"

playing by the rules sucks; and they're not!

"The treaty will nevertheless be a meaningless gesture without U.S. participation — not only is the U.S. the largest energy consumer, but the real purpose of the treaty is to hamper the U.S. economy, to Europe’s advantage, by rationing American energy use."

beautiful: without us it's ineffective, and they're all out to get us! But, OMFG, even W is caving to those heathens:

"While President Bush’s recent public statements seem to indicate that he may also be falling for global warming junk science so far, he’s only for voluntary cuts in greenhouse gas emissions as well as “technology-based solutions."

What to do? Quote SCIENCE!

"Ohio State University glaciologist Lonnie Thompson reported at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union that he found two prehistoric plant beds dating back 5,000 and 50,000 years, respectively, near a high Andean glacier. The plants' ages were pinpointed through carbon dating; until recently, the plants had been covered by ice."

what else could that mean, but that

"a more thoughtful person might point out the plant find is a strong indication that, thousands of years ago, the high Andean climate must have been warm enough to cause the glacier to be recessed and to allow for the plants to grow in the first place — a time frame that obviously predates oil and gas companies, the internal combustion engine, the industrial revolution, and recorded history."

see, it was warm in Peru back in the pleistocene! Hey, why not now? Please tell me more about science. And, the knowledgeable Mr Milloy does, just not about climate science:

"The most prudent interpretation of the Hopkins’ results is that there is no persuasive evidence that “high dose” vitamin E users have a higher risk of premature death. But that wouldn’t be news, now would it?"

see, that's why we shouldn't worry about all that climate stuff. Vitamin E = the global climate. So there!