When we encounter the latest alarmist litany in newspapers across the nation, we can't help inserting a few choice words in editor's brackets: [A serious misconception about] global warming is accelerating at a dramatic pace. For some reason, and it's not science, reporters at such esteemed rags as the Los Angeles Times are becoming [un]knowing environmentalist shills, as when Usha Lee McFarling writes that "groups that are concerned about climate change point out that the rate of warming is steeply increasing." The proof? McFarling quotes Lester Brown, author of 25 annual "State of the World" reports on how ecological doom...