Thousands of Argentines cheered and threw snowballs in the streets of Buenos Aires on July 9, 2007 enjoying the first major snowfall since 1918.

Oh, wait...maybe that disproves global warming.

Early proponents of protecting the environment include Dupont which lobbied Congress to ban the refrigerant R-12 in favor of 135. It also happened that 135 was the product of fruitless research by Dupont because it was not as efficient as R-12 and the R-12 patent owned by Dupont was about to end, opening the product to be sold cheaper by competitors of Dupont. But thankfully, Congress did ban R-12 and thus protect Dupont from losing money on 135--which appears to be more corrosive than R-12. Also on the list is former Prime Minister of the U.K., Margaret Thatcher, who announced threats to the environment by green house gases while she battled unions of miners who threatened the British economy. Obviously, since miners dug coal and coal creates gases when burned, the miners became the "bad guys" for wanting to continue mining coal and make a living. Later, Bill Clinton and Al Gore met with Ken Lay who suggested that his company be protected from competition because his was a "green" company. Yes, that Ken Lay--the one who ran the failed Enron corporation; and yes, that Al Gore--the one who wants you to know he is so environmentally concerned while he heats and cools his 30 room mansion and once claimed that volcanoes can't throw ash high enough into the atmosphere to affect climate, commenting on the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo.

Strangely, the so called "green" movement calls for more government regulation and yet less competition against the largest of corporations which can afford to buy pollution credits.
So it seems like a win/win for both Democrats and Republican politicians alike. Democrats who support more government and Republicans who support bigger monopolies of companies.

Losers will be ordinary citizens who pay for "green" programs in taxes and higher prices for products from the "favored" companies.

And for anyone who wondered: The Pinatubo eruption in June 1991, more than 490 years after the last known eruptive activity, produced the second largest terrestrial eruption of the 20th century.

The effects of the eruption were felt worldwide. It ejected roughly 10 billion metric tons of magma, and 20 million tons of SO2, bringing vast quantities of minerals and metals to the surface environment. It injected large amounts of aerosols into the stratosphere--more than any eruption since that of Krakatoa in 1883. Over the following months, the aerosols formed a global layer of sulfuric acid haze. Global temperatures dropped by about 0.5 °C (0.9 °F), and ozone destruction increased substantially. But remember, Al Gore said that couldn't happen.