Cooling? Wait ‘Til Next Year
By Phil Brennan
Last December I predicted that the winter of 2007/2008 would force Al Gore to trade in his Nobel prize for a dunce cap and while I haven't noticed it gracing his rather large noggin yet, the sudden realization among cooler heads that "gee, where's all that global warming gone?" seems to be widespread.
Now I understand that one cold winter doesn't mark the onset of an ice age, little or big, but all the signs suggest that Mother Nature is about to make Al Gore a bigger fool than he's been. And while that's an outcome much to be desired, what's seems to be in store for the rest of us, is decidedly bad news.
The winter now reluctantly ending began to show us just how wrong Mr. Gore and the global warming advocacy community (AGW) have been. It awakened a host of slumbering potential AGW skeptics who were blissfully unaware of some very basic truths such as the fact that rather than steadily barbecuing the planet, the earth stopped heating ten long years ago, and it's gradually but steadily been getting cooler ever since.
While the Gore subservient
media and all his other acolytes continued to sound the AGW alarm, parroting such nonsense that the Arctic regions are warming, it's those which are the very areas which have been creating and sending bitterly frigid cold fronts southward. As I've tried to point out, the Arctic is our refrigerator and broken refrigerators don't produce cold air.
In recent weeks we've witnessed wave after wave of utterly destructive tornadoes wreaking havoc all across parts of the U.S. In reporting them, the media refuses to report that the fact that the storms are the result of unusually frigid air coming south from the Arctic and sub-Arctic areas of the hemisphere even as Spring arrives, and running head-on into sun warmed air headed northward.
All across the globe Mother Earth has been on a rampage, the most recent manifestation being the eruption of Chile's Chaiten volcano which has been silent for thousands of years. I won't bother citing the record breaking cold waves that one after another have put areas of the planet into the deep freeze, or of typhoons such as the one that just devastated Myanmar.
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