Proof - if proof were even necessary - that God has a sense of both humor and irony.

Here is the weather forecast for the current epicenter of world madness:

Thursday
Cloudy weather. Maximum day temperatures around minus 3 degrees Celsius (26°F.), minimum night temperatures around minus 5 degrees Celsius (23°F.). Up to fresh wind.

Friday
Cloudy with a little snow. Maximum day temperatures around minus 3 degrees Celsius (26°F.) , minimum night temperatures around minus 8 degrees Celsius (18°F.). Up to fresh wind.

Saturday
Sunny spells. Maximum day temperatures around minus 3 degrees Celsius (26°F.), minimum night temperatures around minus 10 degrees Celsius (14°F.). Light winds.

Sunday
Cloudy with a little snow. Maximum day temperatures around minus 1 degrees Celsius (30°F.), minimum night temperatures around minus 5 degrees Celsius (23°F.). Light to moderate winds.

Monday
Cloudy with a little rain and snow. Maximum day temperatures around 2 degrees Celsius (28°F.), minimum night temperatures around 0 degrees Celsius (32°F.). Up to fresh wind.

How’s that global warming working out for you dopey Danes?

Among the Kool-Aide drinkers, true believers and other useful idiots attending this carbon-belching confab was Seth Borenstein, allegedly a science writer for the Associated Press and leading journalist candidate for Global Warming Shill Asshat of the Year.

Faithful followers of Manly’s Republic will remember the thrashing I gave Borenstein in Newsletter #7 last December (gosh, has it been a year already?). For those who missed it, here is the replay. Unfortunately, the link to Borenstein’s article is no longer active:

WASHINGTON (AP) - When Bill Clinton took office in 1993, global warming was a slow-moving environmental problem that was easy to ignore. Now it is a ticking time bomb that President-elect Barack Obama can’t avoid…Since Clinton’s inauguration, summer Arctic sea ice has lost the equivalent of Alaska, California and Texas. The 10 hottest years on record have occurred since Clinton’s second inauguration.

A ticking time bomb? Are you sure, Seth? Because I have trouble hearing it under all the farking snow that has fallen in the last week.  His claim that four out of the ten warmest years since 1900 occurred after 1997 and that 1998 was the warmest year of the 20th century has long since been discredited. Only three of the ten warmest years since 1900 occurred since 1997. Five of the warmest years occurred in the 1930s and the hottest year of the century occurred in 1934.

“The time for delay is over; the time for denial is over,” [Mr. Obama] said on Tuesday after meeting with former Vice President Al Gore, who won a Nobel Peace Prize for his work on global warming. “We all believe what the scientists have been telling us for years now that this is a matter of urgency and national security and it has to be dealt with in a serious way.”

Translation: The colder climate is putting a chill on Al Gore’s carbon credit scam. More people – including hundreds of scientists and climatologists – are beginning to reject the climatological snake oil he’s been hawking. Now he wants to use Uncle Sam’s muscle to extort from taxpayers what he could not previously defraud using guilt and ignorance.

Borenstein concludes his mendacious joyride with an off-the-cliff finish worthy of Thelma & Louise:

Ironically, 2008 is on pace to be a slightly cooler year in a steadily rising temperature trend line. Experts say it’s thanks to a La Nina weather variation. While skeptics are already using it as evidence of some kind of cooling trend, it actually illustrates how fast the world is warming.

Did you get that? The fact that the planet is getting cooler (we are at the leading edge of what appears to be another Maunder Minimum;  mankind can change the climate of this planet about as effectively as a child peeing in the ocean can raise its temperature) actually means it’s getting warmer. Who are you going to believe: Al Gore or your own lying eyes? Welcome to Global Warming Bizarroworld, where down is up, cold is hot and stupidity is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Noel Sheppard at Newsbusters does a yeoman’s job of deconstructing Borenstein’s departure from reality and I strongly recommend that you check it out.

Compounding the irony of cold and snow during a conference dedicated to the Canute-like proposition that mankind possesses the power to stem the tide of climate, is this gem from Seth Borenstein, courtesy of whatsupwiththat.com:

Seth’s toes are finally warm. In his security photo he is grinning like a child — and with reason. He’s finally in.

“You have no idea how important water and a bathroom is until you don’t have it,” he said after waiting 7 hours and 20 minutes to enter the Copenhagen climate talks.

With U.N. security letting in only those cleared last week, hundreds of accredited delegates, journalists and NGO representatives were left to stand for hours in near-freezing temperatures before being let through. “It was crazy,” AP’s Seth Borenstein said. “You couldn’t leave the line. You couldn’t go to the bathroom, you couldn’t eat. Then snowflakes started falling. One woman even said, ‘if lightning strikes me, would they take me out of line?’”

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Seth himself stepped into the line at 7:55 a.m. and was through at 3:15 p.m., but only after another AP reporter, John Heilprin, “saved my bacon” by persuading a U.N. security guard to go out and fetch him. “John was afraid to go out himself in case they wouldn’t let him back in … the first thing I did when I saw him was give him a big hug. I have never been so grateful to be indoors.” Seth’s neighbors in line? “Oh they’re still out there.”

You can’t make this stuff up, folks. If it were up to me, I’d have stripped this doofus down to his skivvies and made him shiver in the cold as he repeated over and over: “There is no man-made climate change…there is no man-made climate change…there is no man-made climate change.”