Here I am in the sunny South, sitting inside in the midst of a late-winter blizzard. In most of the eastern U.S., in fact, this has been the coldest winter in memory. Since 1998 temperatures in the northern hemisphere have been trending down, and predictions for the next 20 years point toward colder than normal temperatures. We may well be entering a period akin to the Little Ice Age, a time of widespread crop failures, hunger, and lower life expectancies due to disease.In response to this crisis, the Democratic Congress is busy passing new taxes that make it more expensive to heat homes, fuel cars, and grow food...
Read more of Jeffrey Folks' wry but unnerving essay published by the American Conservative Union.
