It's really an epitaph for the age, but it was said in reference to global warming, one of my favorite debunkable bugaboos.
Briefly: 2006 is shaping up to have been the coldest year since 2002, and cooler than 1998, despite the fact that we have an El Nino running right now. (Screw the tilde/enyay, this is America and I'm writing in English.)
Using the WMO terminology, 2006 is set to become the "sixth warmest year" after 1998, 2005, 2002, 2003, and 2004: see WMO's top five. Nevertheless, when a naive and innocent girl would read most of the newspapers, she would most likely start to think that we live in an era of a spectacular global warming. In reality, we live in an era of a spectacularly inexpensive propaganda produced by unusually blinded zealots.
H/T: Instapundit, of course (where does he get these wonderful toys?).
