All Things
“I appreciate the question," he (Al Gore) writes. "As it turns out, the scientific community has been addressing this particular question for some time now, and they say that increased heavy snowfalls are completely consistent with what they have been predicting as a consequence of man-made global warming." (AOLNews.com, 2/2/11)
The beauty and wonder of global warming is that it can be used to explain just about everything: hot, cold, no snow, a lot of snow, rain, drought, sun, no sun. You name it and the answer is global warming.
On the Run
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg proposed sweeping changes on Wednesday to New York’s costly pension system, seeking to save billions of dollars by fundamentally altering long-established rules that have awarded generous retirement benefits to municipal workers and have deepened the city’s financial hole. In trying to control soaring pension costs, Mr. Bloomberg is taking aim at retirement rules considered sacrosanct by the city’s powerful municipal unions and their political allies. (NYT, 2/2/11)
It says something when even a namby-pamby like Bloomberg is willing to take on the unions.
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