Climate change hot air

John McCaslin:

Visiting Britain this week to actually debate whatever similarities there are between terrorism and global warming is lawyer Christopher C. Horner, Washington counsel to the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
"How I looked forward to attending the long-scheduled event here in London at which British Prime Minister Tony Blair's chief science adviser, Sir David King, was to discuss his hysterical claim that global warming is a greater threat than terrorism, along with another non-expert on terrorism -- Greenpeace's chief 'climate' adviser," Mr. Horner told Inside the Beltway yesterday.
Here is the precise wording of the event, mailed to invitees on July 1 (obviously, before London's recent string of deadly terrorist attacks): "Is climate change really a greater threat than terrorism? Join the government's Chief Scientific Adviser Sir David King and Charlie Kronick, chief policy adviser for Greenpeace, to discuss this environmental issue and more."
As Mr. Horner pointed out: "Given they are both on record in the affirmative, this was hardly 'the Great Debate.' Oh, those intrusive realities, however.
"Recent London events in the form of an actual threat confronting society cast an uncomfortable context for this lack of proportion and perspective, what with the [London subway] tunnels still stained with blood and as many as 11 Britons buried in the rubble at Sharm el Sheik," he said, referring to the Egyptian Red Sea resort, the site of terror bombings last week.
So yesterday, the "climate-worse-than-terrorism" event was airbrushed into a simple inquiry: "Were the [Group of Eight] promises on climate change hot air?"

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