It is a sure sign of warmist desperation in the wake of the abject failure of global warming climate models to accurately predict the future.  Michael Mann, one of the leading touts of warmism, yesterday told the Democratic Platform Drafting Committee: “Fundamentally, I’m a climate scientist and have spent much of my career with my head buried in climate-model output and observational climate data trying to tease out the signal of human-caused climate change. “What is disconcerting to me and so many of my colleagues is that these tools that we’ve spent years developing increasingly are unnecessary because we can see climate change, the impacts of climate change, now, playing out in real time, on our television screens, in the 24-hour news cycle....”  Please allow me to translate: The best tool we have to scare people into supporting carbon taxes and regulations that would empower the ruling elites to control every aspect of wealth...(Read Full Post)