It’s a tough business climate for the print media in virtually all markets. As most newspapers must do, many papers carried an AP story (Sept 26) about climate change. It is the type of article that has a propensity to lower the confidence in the public’s trust of all newspapers for folks who have actual knowledge of the topic. The article claimed that long time Columbia professor Wallace Broecker “accurately” predicted, way back in 1975, both the exact rise of carbon dioxide and the rise in temperature that would follow. It would seem that the AP writers have never read that paper as that slant is more than a little generous compared to reviews by many scientists today. He is now remembered as a heroic visionary only because pop-culture science of the day was locked on global freezing. His predictions continue to be off target and his overstated guesses of the global temperatures are continuing to get further away from the measured actual temperatures at an ever increasing rate. Either put a disclaimer with these irresponsible AP articles or start charging the EPA for advertising space!

Now, what is news is that EPA is claiming to need 230,000 more employees to try (although they admit they will fail) to administer the current avalanche of new regulations. Currently EPA has about 18,000 employees. It’s the math thing again! An order of magnitude increase in the agency to fail in managing the mess they created? Has Saturday Night Live been overzealous with a skit or is this for real? Maybe this is part of a secret full employment plan to just keep making regulations and hiring bureaucrats until the unemployment rate drops to near zero.