Is It Just Me, or Is It Getting Warm In Here?

Here's some sobering news to start off the ol' '07-

A combination of global warming and the El Niño weather system is set to make 2007 the warmest year on record with far-reaching consequences for the planet, one of Britain's leading climate experts has warned...

...The warning, from Professor Phil Jones, director of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, was one of four sobering predictions from senior scientists and forecasters that 2007 will be a crucial year for determining the response to global warming and its effect on humanity.

Professor Jones said the long-term trend of global warming - already blamed for bringing drought to the Horn of Africa and melting the Arctic ice shelf - is set to be exacerbated by the arrival of El Niño, the phenomenon caused by above-average sea temperatures in the Pacific...

Yeeps. See you all at the North Pole pool party!

Meanwhile, in related global warming news, Fox News believes that, because there are still massive snowstorms in America, global warming is a lie. Someone get these retards a science textbook- stat! And, surprise surprise, it's been revealed that "ExxonMobil Corp. gave $16 million to 43 ideological groups between 1998 and 2005 in a coordinated effort to mislead the public by discrediting the science behind global warming".

Finally, just like last year (and the year before that and the year before that, etc), the President is planning to make 'energy independence' a key focus of his State of the Union address. His speechwriters really do assume all Americans are morons with no memories of any kind, don't they? The big question... will he mean it literally this time?