Global Warming – Is There Anything It Can’t Do?

Here is a delicious piece of sarcasm from Conn Carroll over at the Heritage Foundation's Morning Bell.  
"No snow, too much snow. It does not matter to the enviroleft crowd. For them, global warming always is to blame. That is the whole reason the movement made a deliberate decision earlier this decade to stop calling it “global warming” and start calling it “climate change.” That way they could expand the universe of terrible things they could plausibly blame on global warming. One British citizen even maintains a comprehensive list of everything the enviroleft has tried to blame on global warming including: Atlantic ocean less salty, Atlantic ocean more salty, Earth slowing down, Earth spinning faster, fish bigger, fish shrinking, and (most importantly) beer better, beer worse."
I think his post highlights the issue that many people have with global warming mania; is the Earth heating up, possibly.  Are humans causing it, maybe.  But the bottom line is that we are operating off of only 100 years of reliable data for a planet that has existed for 5 billion and has seen at least five ice epochs.  
Now I'm not saying that reducing our carbon footprint doesn't have benefits for the environment...I just wonder about the hype, and the desire some scientists have to bend the data to prove global warming.