Although the recently released global warming report is filled with cautious statements, caveats, and no real policy recommendations, the left is now going to use it to leap for Bush's throat like a rabid wolverine. I really don't think Bush understands the huge political plum that has been handed to the left.

Read Thomas Oliphant's column to get an idea of what the opening salvos are going to look like. The glee he manifests at the prospect of wrecking Western industrial civilization--especially America--is obvious.

America, which carries the economy of most of the entire goddam planet on its straining shoulders, will be an "outlaw."

Oliphant grouses that the large number of nations already signed up to the Kyoto Treaty account for only a small amount of the total emissions. The reason for this, of course, is that most of those nations are third-world, agricultural armpits where the idea of a productive day is having the ox drop enough dung for the evening cooking fire. Emissions are a sign that advanced technological industry is present. Believe me, life would be one hell of a lot harder with no industry and no emissions than the other way around.

Now that this report, regardless of what it actually says, can be used as "solid proof" of the conservatives signing on to human activity as the cause of global warming, the left, which pretty much runs the environmental movement now, can use it for ammunition in their goal of control of ALL human activity. Any further questions on the real causes of environmental change will now be swept aside.

Look for massive assaults in the next few months on all quarters: killing SUVs, hard restrictions on industries (American industries only, of course), and pretty much every favorite cause of the radical environmentalists. And of course, look for assaults on the Evil Republicans, who to the last man really want their children to eat, breath, and drink poisons.

BULLETIN--This just in!

Bush dismisses report! What may be happening is that although the report was put out on his watch, it is not something he signed up to. Now this is getting interesting! Awaiting further developments. One way or another, this is going to get bloody.