by Tony Phyrillas

Created on: April 25, 2007   Last Updated: May 05, 2007

I know it's the politically correct thing to do, but I just can't bring myself to jump on the global warming bandwagon.

Maybe it's the bitterly cold winter (and spring) we just had in the Northeast. Maybe it's the United Nations, the most corrupt and distrustful organization on the planet. I don't care how many reports the globalists at the U.N. release about climactic catastrophes. I don't trust anything the U.N. says or does.

Maybe Al Gore is the problem. The man who claims he invented the Internet has a serious credibility problem. Maybe it's the news that Al Gore's Tennessee mansion uses 20 times the energy of a typical American home.

Maybe it's the fact that Al Gore travels to his lectures or to pick up his Oscar in a private jet, polluting the environment for thousands of miles. Maybe it's the fact that Al Gore didn't seem too concerned about global warming when he served in the Clinton White House for eight years.

Weather is something I've never been able to get overly excited about. This is the first time in more than 300 columns that I've written about global warming. I look at Al Gore and his limousine liberal pals from the West Coast and I'm leery about people who fan the flames of hysteria for profit and self-promotion.

If Al Gore has you worried about the future of the planet with his "sky is falling" prophecies, take a deep breath and follow my advice. March down to your bookstore or local library and pick up a copy of "The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism" by Christopher C. Horner.

The 288-page book, recently released in paperback by Regnery Publishing, puts the global warming hysteria into perspective.

Forget all the pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo. The book explains climate change as a natural phenomenon in terms any layman would understand. The Earth has gone through extended periods of cooling and heating. There's nothing unusual about what's happening today. Horner points out that the planet is on the tail end of an extended cooling period.

What's different today is that we have people like Al Gore who have latched on to a new brand of militant environmentalism to push their political agenda. The mainstream media elites gladly hop aboard the propaganda campaign and help disburse a lot of hot air on a daily basis.

Horner's book is both informative and entertaining. Let's just say it's a lot more fun than Gore's monotonous "documentary" that swept all the awards from left-leaning Hollywood types. You owe it to yourself

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