The stories in the news are coming thick and fast. The glaciers are melting. A chunk of ice the size of Manhattan broke off this week. It could endanger shipping and even off-shore oil rigs. Russia is plagued by wild fires plunging Moscow into dense choking smoke. The same is happening in Portugal. Floods are killing thousands in Pakistan and forcing thousands more to flee their homes. Large parts of the Midwest are suffering a summer long heatwave with temperatures matched by Phoenix and the Sonora Desert. What's going on? It can't be Global Warming, can it?. Last winter was miserably cold.

The tiny town of Coldwater Kansas once again proves that Kansas is in the forefront of the state of denial. From passing laws prohibiting the installation of wind turbines in the Flint Hills to forcing schools to teach Creationism, Kansas carries the banner for denial of anything that has happened since the dark ages. The tiny Western Star newspaper, "The Official Newspaper of Coldwater, Kansas," has written an open letter in a two page spread to Al Gore. Why they think he would read it is a mystery...

Aside from being a stupid name for a non-news event, it really is irrelevant to global warming. A hacker commits an illegal act and steals e-mails. Why would they do that and why should we care? Is there a world wide conspiracy of scientists? Hardly..