Speaking in Davos, Switzerland over the weekend, noted climatologist Bill Clinton declared that the world's greatest crisis is... temperature change. The press reported Clinton saying to the overfed corporate toadies before him at the World Economic Forum that 'climate change' is a profound 'worry' to him. 'It's the only thing that I believe has the power to fundamentally end the march of civilization as we know it, and make a lot of the other efforts that we're making irrelevant and impossible,' he said. What will arrest the march of civilization, or at least upend economies, is not global warming but panic over the delusions about it — panic which could lead to catastrophically stupid regulations that will wreck businesses. There is a big push on — I noticed in Sunday's Washington Post that its predictable story  sketching out doomsday global warming scenarios appeared above the fold — to revive this panic. Tom Bethell's book The Politically...(Read Full Post)