What I would like to know is what exactly is the horrible downside of global warming? It seems to me that there are a lot of people in the Eastern half of the US that would like to see a little global warming right now. I bet that Florida is going to have a whole new crop of Democrats moving there this summer, probably enough to cure that housing downturn.
Maybe another 8 foot of snow on the east coast followed by some 10 below 0 temperature for 2 weeks might be enough to stop all this frenzy over global warming. If it would do so I hope to see it happen.