The legacy media is ignoring the sound of the entire corrupt edifice of global warming crashing to the ground. The BBC World Service, which is a leftie nightmare, would be having a crisis of faith over climate change if they were self-aware enough for one.

The major sources of this con game have been shown to be downright lies, studies by pressure groups, or even hobbyist magazines. Himalayan glaciers will not melt. Forty percent of the Amazonian jungle will not disappear--that hysterical claim was made by the World Wildlife Fund, and they had fundamentally misrepresented a study in Nature. (Question: cannot anyone read the magazine? It is prominent and has a decent circulation. Or is the WWF's bloviation considered ex cathedra and therefore beyond question?)

The IPCC was entirely too happy to accept, as settled science, the encyclicals of advocacy groups, because when you're going for the gold of the biggest bit of socialism in the history of the world, what's a little truth? And until the last few months it wasn't even an inconvenient truth because it was an ignored truth.

In December the EPA, which may be the most thuggish government agency, delivered itself of the opinion, beloved of progressives but devoid of fact (do I repeat myself?) that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses could cause some endangerment. This is seen as setting the stage for other regulations, which would be crippling to the American economy.

Now it's getting interesting. Rick Perry and other Texas officials announced today a legal challenge to the Feds' finding that greenhouse gases are dangerous, and the State states that the science is flawed. Well, duh. You'd have to be as insular as The New York Times not to have gotten that from the first con man who opened his mouth booming the need to control "global warming." You'd have to be as dense as, well, Al Gore not to know that Al Gore is a self-righteous con man.

Texas has more refineries, chemical plants and coal-fired power plants than any other state. It fits; we're the second most populous state, after all, and we haven't walked down the moonbat macadam that California has and shut down or crippled our industry.

So it's entirely gratifying to find Governor Perry and other public servants, who are here just that, challenging the Feds on their latest, and biggest, power grab.

Question: if this rubbish of anthropogenic climate change is toppled, what will that sorry lot come up with next? Driving a knife into the heart of this scam won't make them go away; they'll just come back like any other opportunistic infection. Socialists are the Kaposi's sarcoma of the body politic.

It doesn't matter if they call themselves progressives, environmentalists, or vegans: a socialist by any other name would smell just as foul.