Science, (not creation science) and where the snowpack has gone: "And the very same jet stream configuration responsible for the southward plunging Arctic air mass chilling the eastern and southern United States is associated further to the west with a "ridge" of high pressure that is pushing the warm, moist subtropical Pacific air masses that would normally deliver plentiful rainfall (and snowpack) to California well to the north."

"Climate scientists were beginning to suspect a decade ago that the dramatic loss of Arctic sea ice might alter the jet stream in precisely this way, favoring conditions eerily like what we are seeing right now in California: unprecedented and devastating drought."

"So to conclude, I propose a toast to the Arctic, whose instability should serve as a wake-up call to those steeped in denial. Because when a drunken Arctic leaves Alaska warmer than Georgia in mid-winter, and California as high and dry as it has ever been, we should know we may have a problem."

But have no fear, co2, just like cigarettes isn't harmful to your health and it's just these elitist scientists who want you to believe your lying eyes and insist if we start planting trees and cap co2 and exercise some leadership to the rest of the world it's not too late to reverse things. And as any real scientist will tell you, temperature change over 50,000 years results from the earth's natural heating and cooling cycles. Over fifty years as we witness is a result of belching carbon dioxide from zillions of cars and factories.

And for God's sake let's not get started on evolution. It's creation science which will give our kids the tools to compete with the 100,000 scientists graduating each year from China's universities.

(The comments in quote from Penn State professor Michael Mann (another elitist who actually thinks.... writing in Live Science. Poor chap, he'll never get a dime from the oil industry.)