Oak Stakes, Silver Bullets, Mirrors and Holy Water Needed

As we shiver and sneeze waiting for the next snow-storm to blanket places that don't usually get much snow, the vampires of the global climate change movement continue to return. How can we hope to slow this movement into the 18th century?

What we need apparently is another government agency and another web site to tell us the latest in offical doctrine on the evils of carbon and continued energy consumption to transport our goods and light our homes. Let us get some consumption taxes in place lest anyone become successful in the future.

Shared Nobel Laureate Takes Control of Climate Propaganda Office

Why do I continue to return to the belief that taxing our emissions and hobbling our industrial growth is not the recipe for job creation or economic recovery? Why is it that no one seems to appreciate the small impact that unilateral crippling of our society in the US will have on the world's temperature? What makes it so difficult to stand back and begin to honestly appraise the data after we've removed the filters which have made it so corrupted and suspect in the recent past?

How's this for standard talking point blather:

According to Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, the office will "help tackle head-on the challenges of mitigating and adapting to climate change. In the process, we'll discover new technologies, build new businesses and create new jobs."

Yes indeed my ignorant rubes, we'll adapt to climate change apparently meaning we'll do without air conditioning or running water. And, in the process, we'll stop aging, cure teen-aged acne, put a chicken in every pot and add a four hundred pound non-disposable battery to the trunk of every car.

Mr. Karl is up to his elbows in the scandal according to co-researchers:

But Roger Pielke Sr., a climatologist affiliated with the University of Colorado who has crossed horns with Karl in the past, says his appointment was a mistake. He accused Karl of suppressing data he submitted for the IPCC's most recent report on climate change and having a very narrow view of its causes. ...

One of the key areas of dispute, he said, was in describing "recent regional trends in surface and tropospheric temperatures," and the impact of land use on temperatures. It is the interpretation of this data on which the intellectual basis of the idea of global warming hangs.

In an interview, Pielke reiterated that Karl "has actively opposed views different from his own." And on his Web site last week, he said Karl's appointment "assures that policy makers will continue to receive an inappropriately narrow view of our actual knowledge with respect to climate science."

He said the people who run the agencies in charge of climate monitoring are too narrowly focused, and he worries that the creation of the new office "would give the same small group of people the chance to speak on the issue and exclude others" whose views might diverge from theirs.

Apparently the administration has appointed a true believer to direct the propaganda arm and he will brook no disagreement with his view of decided science.

Can anyone drive a stake through the heart of these vampires? Are there any silver bullets to deal with these zombies? What will it take to slow the slide?