Many of those radical environmentalists and liberal politicans have managed to scare to death over global warming are too young to remember the bugaboo of just a few decades ago.

Without drastic action to curb industrial emissions, it was going to kill tens of millions of people, eliminate hundreds of species of plants and animals and render much of the planet unrecognizable, we were assured.

It was, of course, global cooling. When, despite the dire warnings, nothing much happened, the Luddites and liberals took a few years off to regroup. Now they're back, with a much-improved public relations machine.

Both their strategy and their success were on display the other day during a hearing conducted by the House of Representatives Energy and Com-merce Committee. Gina McCarthy, who heads the Environmental Protec-tion Agency, was being questioned by Rep. David McKinley, R-W.Va.

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