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A stream made by a melting glacier, where the surface is covered by cryoconite near Qaanaaq, Greenland. Photograph: The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images

George Will, the syndicated columnist and political commentator, responded to a question about climate change the other day with this take:

Got that?

Good. Because it's a fallacy in the U.S. climate change debate -- that climatology research, in every nation, for the last century, has been conducted to help a group of people consolidate power in 2014 in the country where George Will lives.

It's like the "Seinfeld" episode in which a mom-and-pop shop where Jerry has dropped off his sneakers suddenly comes under suspicion.

"So," Elaine asks Kramer, "Mom and Pop's plan was to move into the neighborhood, establish trust -- for 48 years -- and then run off with Jerry's sneakers."

"Apparently," Kramer reasons.

Like Elaine with Mom and Pop, we must be a little leery of concluding that the Washington progressives have laid a trap for us with these climate change shenanigans.

The "whole point of global warming" is not, as Will would have it, to execute a liberal headlock on the American people. If global warming has a "whole point" of any kind, it is, it appears, to warm the globe, perhaps intolerably. That's what progressives and conservatives of good will and common sense are seeking to stop.

No one has yet described any physical laws linking atmospheric heat retention with American liberal activism or right-wing special-interest media buys. Let's worry about that one when it's peer-reviewed and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Climate Change and Encroaching Progressive Czarism.

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