Case Closed?

(Fox News) - The Associated Press has decided that any discussion of global warming — and its facts — is over. The AP's Seth Borenstein writes, "The 10 hottest years on record have occurred since Clinton’s second inauguration. Global warming is accelerating. Time is close to running out."

But he does go on to mention the inconvenient fact that recent data indicates the earth is actually cooling. The guy then says that this cooling is actually proof of global warming.

"2008 is on pace to be a slightly cooler year in a steadily rising temperature trend line...while skeptics are already using it as evidence of some kind of cooling trend, it actually illustrates how fast the world is warming."

That, you see, is because everything has gotten so much warmer overall.

Environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg — who does not dispute global warming but questions the value of many proposed remedies — is taking President-elect Obama to task. Lomborg writes in The Australian newspaper that Mr. Obama is getting some of his facts wrong.

Last month the president-elect said, "Sea levels are rising. Coastlines are shrinking. We've seen record drought, spreading famine, and storms that are growing stronger." That's a sentiment he reiterated late today.

But Lomborg says, "Actually we've seen a sea-level fall during the past two years...in that period, many coastlines have increased."

Lomborg says studies also show an increase in global soil moisture and not drought. "Famine has declined rapidly in the past century."

He then ads, "A policy of reducing CO2 emissions would have had zero consequence on Katrina’s devastating effect."