This climatological press-stopper was passed along to us with the covering note: "This isn't exactly breaking news, but Ted Stevens is off his rocker"

Really now, isn't it long past time that the little men with the butterfly nets come and get our Ted? And if they've got extra space in the van to Happy Acres, maybe they could rustle up a few other senators who seem to have passed their "sell by" date, like Jim Bunning (pictured at left above) and Pete Domenici (right)?

Stevens says Earth's warming trend may reverse

Associated Press - September 4, 2007 3:14 PM ET

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - U.S. Senator Ted Stevens says he believes the worst of global climate change may be over.

Stevens says the Earth is at the end of a long warming period, perhaps as much as 700 to 900 years.

He says that if the Earth is close to the end of that, it means the planet will start getting cooler gradually.

Stevens spoke while discussing Shishmaref, a Chukchi Sea community that has been hit hard by erosion because sea ice no longer provides it protection from fall storms.

Stevens says with the Earth cooler, stability might come to that region again.

The president of Alaska Conservation Solutions, a group focused on global warming issues in Alaska, says Stevens theory on warming is a new one.

Deborah Williams says it's the opposite of the findings of an international panel of scientists earlier this year.

Williams says she has not heard of any credible climatologist who believes that the Earth is going to cool.

She says that to the best of her knowledge, every climatologist believes that the Earth is going to warm, in large part because of human greenhouse gas emissions.