The other day, when almost a foot of snow fell on Cedar City, I heard someone remark, "so much for global warming." Yet even this early in the year, a great number of climate scientists are predicting that 2010 will be among the warmest years on record. With normally comparatively balmy Washington, D.C., suffering its worst blizzards in decades, and Siberia colder than in half a century... how can this possibly be?

For the same reason that people insist that e-books of new publishers...