The global-warming media blitz I warned you about last week is here — and Time magazine is leading the charge with an overwrought cover package about how global warming is about to make life on Earth resemble the movie Waterworld, only instead of growing gills like The Mariner, we’re all gonna die and take the pinon mice and the quiver trees with us.

The journalists who are cranking this stuff out have already made up their minds about global warming. Interview subjects who agree with the journalists are given softballs. Subjects who argue that the science just doesn’t support the doomsday scenarios are set up.

Cato Institute senior fellow Pat Michaels tells the Media Blog that this is exactly what happened when he was interviewed for this ABC News story titled, “Was Confusion Over Global Warming a Con Job?”

“The producer wanted me to say that global warming could be beneficial in some way,” Michaels said. “He kept asking, and I kept saying I don