Let me begin by saying that I went to school for Physical Geography, specialized in Fluvial Geomorphology. That's the study of water's effect on the land... be it rivers, runoff, groundwater or glaciers. I wouldn't say I'm an expert by any means, but I know a thing or two about climate change.

I've known that the Global Warming Doomsday was a farce from the beginning... I studied the history, did the research and made some measurements of my own. I had also seen "them" claim a coming ice age in the 70s, the ozone hole in the 80s, El-Nino in the 90s. They were always off, always playing the part of Chicken Little and never looking at the big picture. But, hey... sensationalism sells papers and gets folks watching the news. Right?

Now Cap and Trade is looming, however. Is it any coincidence that the media has changed their tune? The "Scientific Consensus" has disappeared from the news vocabulary. BBC and CNN are starting to say that man may not have a part to play.

Television broadcasting takes a lot of electricity. Paper making is a dirty, carbon-releasing business... not to mention burning gas to distribute the things. You're sitting here reading this instead of watching TV or reading the paper.

Maybe, just maybe, the fear of the increased costs resulting from Cap and Trade, coupled with continually dwindling revenues, has convinced the media to start reporting on reality instead of social engineering through doomsday forecasts.

It'll be interesting to see if the media continues to report positively on the Cap and Trade bill. I think I feel a change in the weather.