Michael Fumento has a good piece today up at Forbes:

Some global warming skeptics have been using the remarkably cold winter and record snowfalls to attack the idea of global warming. Believers are crying foul. “You’re confusing weather with climate!” they insist.
And they’re right. But they invented the game a long time ago and have been deftly playing it ever since.
Among the complainers is Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson, who last year won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary. “The Earth is really, really big,” he condescendingly but correctly observes in a nationally syndicated column. “It’s so big that it can be cold here and warm elsewhere — and this is the key concept — at the same time. Even if it were unusually cold throughout the continental U.S., that still represents less than 2% of the Earth’s surface.”
Says Robinson: “Those who want to use our harsh winter to ‘disprove’ the theory that the planet’s atmosphere is warming should realize that anecdotal evidence always cuts both ways.” He notes that crews had to bring snow to the ski runs at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver because the winter there has been unusually warm. Meanwhile, “Revelers participating in Rio de Janeiro’s annual carnival,” he says, “sweltered in atypical heat, with temperatures above 100 degrees.”
Adds Robinson, “Fortunately, the custom during carnival is not to wear much in the way of clothing.” To which I add, “And unfortunately I have yet to attend this event, but there’s always next year.”
Everything Robinson writes is true, but he neglects to say that the warmists never hesitate to use any unusual phenomena to assert their case. “Any?” you ask with incredulity. “Any!” I respond with assurance. Including all sorts you might expect to read in the satire newspaper The Onion.
Indeed, it was precisely to include things like extreme cold and heavy snow under the rubric of “global warming” that the preferred term became “global climate change.”
A huge list of phenomena warmists have attributed to “global climate change” can be found at this Web site. One glance blows you away. It includes everything from “acne” to “yellow fever,” with “short-nosed dogs endangered” in between.
Others include: brain-eating amoebae, brothels struggle, cannibalism, circumcision in decline, Earth to explode, earth upside down, football team migration, Garden of Eden wilts, invasion of king crabs, Italy robbed of pasta, killer cornflakes, Loch Ness monster dead, mammoth dung melt, opera house to be destroyed, seals mating more, spiders invade Scotland, squid larger, squid tamed, UFO sightings, Vampire moths, violin decline, witchcraft executions.

I knew it! Those Clearasil lobbyists are secretly at work trying to end the Obama Energy Tax.

The rest here.