The subheadline of a new Bloomberg Business Week story warns: ?Though the BP oil spill?s impact is much less severe than feared, long-term threats remain: wetlands destruction, dead zones, and climate change. They make the spill look almost minor.?

You don?t have to look far to find solid arguments against the ?long-term threat? of climate change.

Almost exactly two years ago, Bob Ferguson of the Science and Public Policy Institute shared with Carolina Journal Radio the volume of scientists in North Carolina and across the country who agreed that global warming alarmism was overblown.

Why the mad rush to do something about climate change? MIT atmospheric physicist Richard Lindzen explained in 2007.