In this edition of GWCW: Brian Williams gets all syrupy sweet; so what are you going to do to stop AGW?; yet another bought-and-paid-for shill for big oil; Al Gore vs. the IPCC; and Anak Krakatoa vs. the Climate.

It looks like we have a clear frontrunner for this year’s award for the most mawkish over-sentimentalization of environmental issues – NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams:

I made my annual pilgrimage to the Time magazine luncheon designed to narrow down the nominees for “_____ of the Year; on the cover of Time. Forgive the blank, but over the years it’s been a noun, a pronoun, a proper noun — it’s been a lot of things. My nominee was a woman — a victim of abuse. A strong, resilient woman who is a constant topic of discussion these days: Mother Earth.

Seriously, I’ve read that paragraph multiple times and still can’t figure out how it was not written by Kent Brockman. And for those of you keeping score, that means that individuals who maintain a sense of skepticism about the current state of climate change alarmism are now by implication as bad as