Good for the Weekly Standard to go a round in the good fight against "global warming gibberish."
It is abundantly clear that the global-warming-equals-doom cottage industry is (bio)fuelled by an as good as religious - read: irrational - conviction that, uniquely among all the sources of global change, anthropogenic change is bad, bad, bad...capital B BAD! And - as is to be expected - the high priests of this irrationality can spin any occurrence in the natural world as being bad, bad, etc. (you know the tune, join in on the second verse)...and having global warming as its root cause. Not mention that our (bio)priests are frantic to suppress any contrary thoughts, are wallowing in their status as The Ones who are finally getting to tell the rest of us what our choices and freedoms should (not) be, and salivating at the prospect of even more status & power.
Neither the natural world, or mankind are perfectable.