…and thought I’d share this Wesley Pruden Column that was there, since it’s so spot-on.

Manhattan will be a dangerous place this week for President Obama, where the terminally envious of the world are waiting at the United Nations with envy, arrogance and outstretched begging bowls.

That’s forever the case, isn’t it? Beg us for money, then badmouth us the rest of the time.

The diplomats representing the envious countries, some of them little more than tribes with flags and an embassy in a rooming house on a side street in Washington, have cooked up an interesting week to blunt the skepticism of a growing number of scientists who are finding the courage to say what they believed all along, even as Ban Ki-moon, the secretary-general of the United Nations, and others insist that time is running out to make the sun change its spots, the tides recede and the weather behave itself.

Heh…

The London Guardian reports that the U.N. chief and global-warming negotiators “say that unless they can convert world leaders into committed advocates of radical action it will be hard … to avoid the most devastating consequences of climate change.”

If true, that’s good news for the rest of us, because “the most devastating consequences” would be enactment of Al Gore’s nightmare vision, to give the bureaucrats of the world all the taxes they can spend while bankrupting the most productive countries of the West.

The ambassador of the European Union to the United States is in particular need of a shot of Midol and a nice lie down until he feels better. Sen. Harry Reid’s disclosure that the U.S. Senate won’t take up cap-and-trade legislation, the centerpiece of “controlling” the effects of global warming, until next year has thrown the Europeans into a royal pout.

The only real urgency involved in the timely enactment of man-made global warming legislation is that they need to get all bills passed quickly, before the world learns that the entire anthropogenic global warming kerfuffle is one big scam.

“Sometimes in this country,” says EU Ambassador John Bruton, the greatest deliberative body in the world acts as though it is the only deliberative body in the world, and we should wait until it gets health care passed. The … world cannot wait on the Senate’s timetable.”

The world damned well better wait on the U.S. Senate! If they don’t like it, let those who feel they can’t wait go panhandle elsewhere.

A new book by an Australian geologist, Ian Plimer, professor of mining geology at the University of Adelaide, argues that scientific fact has overwhelmed the doomsday scenarios of sinking islands, rising temperatures and collapsing ice shelves. He argues that global warming, which has naturally occurred over the billions of years of the Earth’s life, has often been a cycle of wealth and plenty. The Romans grew lemons, limes and oranges as far north as Hadrian’s Wall.

This naturally causes heartburn in certain labs and faculty lounges.

“They say I rape cows, eat babies and that I know nothing about anything,” he says. But the professor is not susceptible to the usual smear that he is a right-wing religious nut. He’s actually a member of the Humanist Society and wrote an earlier book attacking creationism, making him at one with the atheists, infidels and heretics who wear unbelief as scientific credentials.

This naturally causes heartburn in certain labs and faculty lounges.

Particularly those lounges occupied by far left liberals, and those labs run by “scientists” receiving federal grants, who would lose them if they admitted that man was not creating global warming.

My favorite paragraph in the entire OpEd:

American presidents always get grief abroad for looking out for American interests. Life was tough for Gulliver, too. But Lilliputians in every age are merely irritants, like ticks and mosquitos. President Obama should keep that in mind this week in New York.

AMEN to that!