As Booker suggests in his column today,
the Almighty must ha a sense of humour. Only He could arrange, so fortuitously, for it to snow last Tuesday while MPs spent yet another six hours discussing what is potentially the most expensive single piece of legislation ever put through Parliament on global warming.

This was also the same week, Booker notes, that one of the few specific policy commitments made by would-be president Obama is that he will support last year's ruling by the Supreme Court that the US Environmental Protection Agency should treat CO2 as a "pollutant" under the Clean Air Act.

He writes that the gas, that no plant can survive without, and hence all higher forms of life depend on, would be regulated as if it were as dangerous as arsenic or sulphuric acid. Obama also supports a US version of the EU's "carbon trading" scheme, costed at hundreds of billions of dollars. It seems the global warming scare may soon become as crippling to the world's richest economy as anything our own politicians are hell-bent on imposing here.

And this is the man that would be president.

However, this was also the same week - as reported on the admirable Watts Up With That - that nearly 180 places in the US, from Alaska to Alabama, have just recorded their coldest October temperatures or heaviest October snowfalls on record, based on figures from the National Climate Data Centre.

It was also the week that we saw Arctic ice continue to rebound and, as significantly, the worst snowstorm in living memory … in Tibet.
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