Can We Squawk About the Weather?

We can if we're Fox News. Or Matt Drudge. These people use any snowstorm as reason to cast doubt on global warming. It's as predictable as...well, no, it's a lot more predictable than the weather. I really regret that important global warming protests and actions always seem to be timed so that they coincide with winter weather. Mostly, the activists can't help it; it's just rotten luck. But I'll say it again: Having the U.N. Copenhagen meeting in Denmark in December is just asking for this kind of stuff. That doesn't, of course, excuse the dishonesty from right-wingers who continually try to suggest that individual weather events undermine the global warming consensus.