Today's report about political developments surrounding the global warming issue is brought to you by the letter "C."

1. C is for "carbon dioxide." Environmental extremists and major news journalists call this gas that is exhaled by all animals, and that is food for plants, a dangerous pollutant. Yet we would all die without it. That makes me sad.

2. C is for "climate change." It used to be called global warming, which many activists with a socialist bent warned would bring more catastrophic weather events, elevating seas, and economic ruin. They said because humans continue to produce greater amounts of carbon dioxide -- a "greenhouse gas" -- that they are causing global temperatures to rise. They mostly blame the humans' burning of fossil fuels like coal and oil for increasing this dangerous CO2.

But now because the planet isn't warming in conjunction with these CO2 increases, the activists call it "climate change" instead. That way they can still justify trying to make us stop using fossil fuels, without regard for what the weather does.

1. C is for "cool." That's how it feels outside lately. For all the histrionics of recent years over the coming warming, this summer saw extremely cool temperatures and now the media is rife with stories of early snowfall. But this still fits with the new all-encompassing terminology, even though scientists say they don't get it.

2. C is for "cattle." The wiggly warming advocates say we're supposed to stop eating beef because they produce so much methane, which is an even stronger greenhouse gas than CO2.

3. C is for "condoms." Besides going vegetarian, alarmists ultimately point to the climate change problem as one of overpopulation. They say the only way we can accomplish their goal is to limit, and even reduce, the number of people on the planet. Yet when you suggest that they be the first ones to go in support of their own cause, they get mad!

4. C is for "consensus." A lot of concerned scientists say they all agree that global warming is happening, that it will lead to disaster, and that it is mostly humans' fault for causing it. Except not all the scientists say they all agree -- just some of them say they all agree.

Instead there's conflict between the concerned scientists and, I guess, the "unconcerned" scientists. But the concerned scientists don't even acknowledge there's a debate because then that would undermine their "consensus" claim. They are pretending there's no opposition, which has proven difficult, especially considering that public opinion polls show there are more people who believe global warming is not a problem than there are those who do believe it's a problem.

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