Cuccinelli on global warming: What about that snow?

Do freezing temperatures and flakes falling from the heavens make you think of romping in the white stuff, tossing snowballs and shaping snowmen and snow angels?

Presumably, Attorney General-elect Ken Cuccinelli enjoys similar winter weather activities.

But the seasonal precipitation also makes him think about something else: that a major snow storm like the one that hit the East Coast over the weekend is an indication that global warming theories are flawed.

"Isn't Snow in the Middle of Global Warming Inconvenient?" is the headline on the most recent Cuccinelli Compass dispatch, the periodic electronic newsletter of the incoming Attorney General.

In a critique of the recent Copenhagen Climate Conference, Cuccinelli writes that "all of the anti-capitalism environmentalists will DECLARE the need to limit capitalism and free markets in the name of their radical agenda, but they will not honestly DEBATE the subject. Why? Because the facts don't support their DECLARATION that the globe is inevitably warming as a result of man's activities."

A Republican from Fairfax County, Cuccinelli is known for his staunch conservative views. Some observers expect him to be an activist Attorney General.

-- Julian Walker

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