On Climate, Bad News Will Resume

Plateau in Temperatures Adds Difficulty to Task Of Reaching a Solution -- New York Times, Sept. 23

WASHINGTON (By George Will, Townhall.com) - In this headline on a New York Times story about difficulties confronting people alarmed about global warming, note the word "plateau." It dismisses the unpleasant -- to some people -- fact that global warming is maddeningly (to the same people) slow to vindicate their apocalyptic warnings about it.

The "difficulty" -- the "intricate challenge," the Times says -- is "building momentum" for carbon reduction "when global temperatures have been relatively stable for a decade and may even drop in the next few years." That was in the Times' first paragraph.