Thanks to everyone who has been sending me links to this story, this was my laugh for the day:

Osama bin Laden sought to draw a wider public into his fight against the United States in a new message Friday, dropping his usual talk of religion and holy war and focusing instead on an unexpected topic: global warming.

The al-Qaida leader blamed the United States and other industrialized nations for climate change and said the only way to prevent disaster was to break the American economy, calling on the world to boycott U.S. goods and stop using the dollar.

“The effects of global warming have touched every continent. Drought and deserts are spreading, while from the other floods and hurricanes unseen before the previous decades have now become frequent,” bin Laden said in the audiotape, aired on the Arab TV network Al-Jazeera.

The terror leader noted Washington’s rejection of the Kyoto Protocol aimed at reducing greenhouse gases and painted the United States as in the thrall of major corporations that he said “are the true criminals against the global climate” and are to blame for the global economic crisis, driving “tens of millions into poverty and unemployment.”  [Associated Press]

Why is it that just about everyone who hates Bush just happens to be a global warming alarmist?  I wonder if he is busy manipulating temperature statistics for Pakistan and Afghanistan?  I wonder if he is just making a play to become the new head of the IPCC? 

I could go on and on, but someone needs to tell Bin Laden that he is late on the global warming bandwagon; it is already falling apart.  I have a recommendation for the next eco-fraud he should take up instead..