Muckraker: Grist on Politics

The nation’s capital is currently in the grips of Snowpacalypse ’09 (meaning, in D.C. parlance, we have about 2 inches of snow on the ground).

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Climate skeptics are already giddy about the fact that a) clearly this demonstrates that global warming is a ginourmous lie; and b) it may mean Al Gore’s scheduled testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee tomorrow gets put on hold.

To wit, today on Drudge:Gore hearing on warming may be put on ice...