Blizzards heat up warming debate

clipped from washingtontimes.com 1 of 1 In Washington, even a snowstorm is a political event. The record snowstorms that have blanketed the capital and shut down cities across the Mid-Atlantic have already sparked a new round of sparring between supporters and skeptics in the global-warming debate. Myron Ebell, director of energy and global warming policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) and a global warming skeptic, acknowledged that one weather event is not enough to prove or disprove the climate-change thesis, but noted that "global-warming alarmists" tend to take any severe-weather incident - heat waves, cold snaps, droughts and floods - as evidence supporting their position. But CEI's Mr. Ebell said the recent incidents had contributed to a large loss of credibility for the global-warming theory. clipped from granitegrok.com  Certainly, it looks like that, right? Now, stretch out that timeline (e.g., "more context, Scotty!"): clipped from www.foresight.org