Wait For It...

I predict here and now that well before the 2008 elections the term "global warming" will completely disappear from common parlance. In response to us right wing nutters who refuse to swallow the pablum we're constantly being fed, Al Gore and crew will soon be painting the ominous picture of "global change".

I just heard this term used on a NASA podcast and, I must admit, it is brilliant. "Global change" pretty much encompasses any temperature variation, any dramatic weather event, any melting, any freezing and any drought, tsunami or hurricane that comes along without having to explain why baseball games had to be cancelled all over the country due to snow this past April.

See, it's not about warming, stupid. It's about humans changing the global climate with their evil and wasteful ways of...well... simply existing. If the temperature is too high, human driven "global change" is to blame. If the temperature is too low, human driven "global change" is to blame.

It's the perfect way for the global warming crowd to cover all of their bases and, as a result, have to think about what they are saying even less...though I'm not sure that's even possible.

Global change. You heard it here first.