I'm actually working on a longer climategate related post but his news just broke so I thought I'd make a quick mention of it. A 2007 U.N. report attributed North African food shortages to global warming. One of the key authors of the report has now come forward to say he cannot find any scientific evidence to back this claim. Fox News reports:

The power to tax is the power to destroy. Since the liberal kooks who run the government favor vegetarianism, that will mean the destruction of anyone who eats a normal human diet, if it's up to prominent moonbat "ethicist" Peter Singer, who claims that "the reasons for a tax on beef and other meats are stronger than those for discouraging consumption of cigarettes, transfats or sugary drinks." This is because:

The main purpose of our federal system is that it creates a free market for liberty. If one state goes off the rails into authoritarianism, people can cross the border to another. For example, Washington residents who want clean dishes can go to Idaho to buy effective detergent, which is forbidden by the petty tyrant environazis who run their own state.