Exactly what I was going to say. Can't get funding to study the mating habits of the Tsetse fly? Just claim that "climate change" will wipe out the poor creature IF WE DON'T ACT NOW!!!!

"I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth, if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives." ~Leo Tolstoy

...the new data shows it was even cooler in the 60s than we previously thought! More global warming!

...as their climate models have failed spectacularly at predicting future warming. Now we're supposed to believe the "missing heat" is hiding at the bottom of the Atlantic. CO2 is already at saturation levels as a GHG; it does not necessarily follow AT ALL that more human CO2 emissions will warm the planet. CAGW is, and always has been, about getting the uninformed to reduce consumption via confiscatory pricing and/or taxation of fossil-fuel based energy.

...brainiacs are often small of stature while large people are often dumb?

Big cities have been run by Democrats for decades now; the liberal way of thinking has been dominant in this country since the 60s and you blame...wait for it...Republicans! Under Democrats and RINOs, entitlement spending has gone from ~$50B/year in the 60s to ~$1.5T/year now, and those are inflation adjusted estimates. As a result, we now have legions of self-entitled pricks like these protestors. The world owes me a job, owes me a house, blah blah blah.

Last time I checked, the U.S. was supposed to have a President with limited powers enumerated by the Constitution. The story shouldn't be about birds or wind power. It should be about an administration that all too frequently ignores, changes or selectively enforces laws duly enacted by Congress. Absent some sort of national emergency, this type of behavior is outrageous.

...hire a ton more scientists like themselves to study the problem and come up with "solutions."

. the government to take over my health care. . .

I've been reading Slashdot for years, and your post is one of the best I've ever read. You are right on in so many ways. I don't think I can say it better than you did, so I'll just say from my own experience, your're dead right. I'm an electrical engineer, and I work with computers all the time, but I still don't have any desire to mess with firewalls and anti-spyware programs on my home machines. After complete frustration with adware bringing both my home Windows boxes to their knees, I bought a Powerbook G4 about a year ago. No problems with it since then--all I do is run software update when it asks me to. When I wanted to buy my 15 year-old daughter a notebook computer for Christmas, I compared Windows boxes to the Apples, and guess what, the iBook G4 was actually cheaper than comparably equipped Windows boxes, so I bought one. She's been happy with it for over a month, and rarely has any questions about it. I don't work for Apple, but I'm seriously thinking about buying some Apple stock. All the adware/virus issues with Windows, coupled with the iPOD's success and the new $499 Mac and Apple could really start kicking some A$$ in this market. But again, great post. You are the man! (Assuming you're a guy.)