ABC’s Bill Blakemore was pushing the global-warming thing really hard this morning on GMA, telling the audience that it’s high time that everyone grasped the emerging Al Gore reality. But maybe the most classic part was after all the propaganda had been distributed, substitute host Chris “Son of Mario” Cuomo said, “Thanks for the education.”

The Iain Murray alert in this comes when they start talking body counts, heat-wave deaths. The Washington Post just throws out today that 52,000 Europeans died of heat in the summer of 2003. Ex-squeeze me?