Global warming is one of the polarizing issues of our time. This week it’s gone bipolar with some of the zaniest news we’ve seen on the topic yet.

Scientists found a crack at the North Pole, showing just how thin and fragile the ice is becoming. The North Pole, folks! It’s been frozen solid since before Santa Claus was invented.

Then another study revealed that the planet’s oceans have actually cooled since 2003. Global warming is on short-term hiatus, the scientists figure. Don’t expect everyone to buy that analysis. Do expect lots of arguing.

California’s Attorney General filed a lawsuit against six automakers for adding to the problem. The old “hit ‘em in the pocketbook theory.” Good luck, Mr. Lockyer. Some have nothing in their pocketbooks, and they all have a lot of friends in Washington.

Then Richard Branson stole any initiative the automakers might come up with when he announced he’ll *give away* some $3 billion of profits from his various global transportation ventures, over the next 10 years, to fight climate change. Let’s hope that’s not just hot air. I mean, how exactly do you fight global warming? Gloves off, I presume.
You gotta figure Al Gore will announce something any minute now. Maybe he and Branson will form a joint venture to take over Detroit *and* the White House.