It’s freaking July! It’s supposed to be mid to upper 90’s, at least compared to summers past. We’ve got watermelons being sold off the highway, that means summer is in full swing. I don’t need a scientist or NASA or some suck-ass politician to tell me the weather. It’s noticeably cooler. Everyone is talking about it here in my small town. We’re all cracking jokes about “global warming.” Nobody believes in it anymore. We’re mostly country folk. We believe what we see and feel, not what people a thousand miles away say, especially when those people are getting billions of dollars to do “research.”

“Global Warming” is a cult created by the wealthy. Ever notice how the lower members of this cult are filled with bile? How they quote other people, other statistics, but offer nothing original? And the people they quote are government shills or people on the government payroll (is that redundant?) They have nothing of their own to offer, so they just bully and shout and try to belittle anyone sheepish enough to listen.

“Global Warming” is a hoax to bring about a global tax. Mark my words, if the cooling period continues the tax will become about something else, possibly even “Global Icing” or “Global Pollution.” I’m just a hick in a small town, but I read and research. There is absolutely a push for global government and a system of global taxation. Do a little research on your own, look and see who’s pushing for it. The extrememly wealthy and powerful. I don’t pretend some massive secret cabal that involves aliens or other such nonsense. It’s about the same thing as always - money and power and control. Same garbage that’s been going on since the dawn.

Oh, and for the record, I am 100% interested in humans cleaning up their filth. We have really made a mess on this planet. I will not argue that. I get sick to my stomach at the litter and the waste, the poisoning and the rampant destruction. I do not doubt that industrial emissions effect our environment. I just don’t buy into the “Global Warming” hysteria. I don’t trust shallow evil men like Al Gore (I am NOT a Republican!) I’m much more concerned with the current genetic corruption of our food supplies, cross species experimentation, and war. And the current (massive) cooling trend and lack of sunspots is quite alarming.

Hello…that was last year…what global cooling?

There will always be places that will experience record low temperatures and winter annomalies but that is expected if you have any knowledge of true climate change…. “2008 was the warmest March on record over land surfaces of the world and the second warmest overall worldwide”…that was this year. People who don’t understand glabal warming and climate change need to shut up.We will never solve the problems we face if the uninformed believe the ignorant…and they do!

This is Global Warming not OMG it snowed in Paris or last week was the coldest days I have expeinced where I live…If you think like that hang out all over the US where they are currently experiencing record heat and that is in many places but that is not the whole story…again…Global Warming.

With all that said, the sun could definately cause global cooling because it is our source of heat but until there is more evidence and more time we should live with the truth of today and the history of the last 100 or so years which have been well documented. Global warming is not a belief if is based on the facts and is most likely caused by humans because as far as we know nature doesn’t work in the range of hundereds of years (normally) but thousands and millions of years.

I do find the lack of sunspot activity interesting and will continue to follow the news because I am Interested in the effects it has on current climate change…maybe it will cool things down…which would be good because here in Houston it has been in the mid 90’s since the end of April and will probably continue till October…I would welcome some true global cooling.

I also think a problem occurs when a scientist uses the general media to put forward ideas. Whilst this is an improvement for the purposes of general discussion, the normal cyclic process of correction and review is short circuited to some degree. Scientific humility would go a long way to help this process along with the media avoiding sensationalism for profit (unlikely I think).

So, if we are going to discuss complex issues in the general media, (an idea I skeptically support) then we need to ensure that we “the public” have the tools to consider the scientific issues at hand. A healthy skepticism and the ability to consider all sources with some degree of rationality are needed.

I would be very happy to see a course at school titled something like “Logic and Skepticism – ain’t nothing to sniff at!” At the very least this may help people to distinguish propaganda and invective from scientific theory. Another aspect here is to instill the idea that theories do change and that they are not immutable.

Having said all that I am reminded of a comment by Douglas Adams “Man is so amazingly primitive that he still thinks that digital watches are a pretty neat thing”

On a subject more specific to this blog; have you heard if the predictions for cycle 24 are going to be “officially” lowered? I ask because the predictions I have seen said that June was the extreme end for the start of the high count prediction.

To some extent this article also explains why climatologists thought global cooling was more likely back in the 60s and 70s and then changed to worrying about global warm. I have heard this used to make the argument that climatologists have no idea what they are talking about and thus scientist should not be trusted. Probably unfair but an effective NERF (not easily refutable) comment.

This is largely the fault of scientists themselves, and science programs. They tend to speak in absolutes when they really have only a small percentage of certainty. As I’ve mentioned before, you’ll see scientists on documentaries saying Venus is an example of a runaway greenhouse effect. Sorry, but we know very little about Venus, and absolutely nothing about it’s history. But you’ll hear them say these things with certainty.

So it’s not that they don’t have any idea what they’re talking about, but they need to show some humility when it comes to uncertainty.

Although the ideas in the article have been termed controversial they do give you a good feeling about the unexpected benefits of global warming. Also the article emphasizes the long term cycles related to earth wobble, incident solar radiation changes and variations in CO2 levels. I especially like the graph on page 53, suggesting what might happen to global temperatures when we stop burning fossil fuels (they plummet).

To some extent this article also explains why climatologists thought global cooling was more likely back in the 60s and 70s and then changed to worrying about global warm. I have heard this used to make the argument that climatologists have no idea what they are talking about and thus scientist should not be trusted. Probably unfair but an effective NERF (not easily refutable) comment.

Generally, I think you have to be very tempered when criticizing peer reviewed material. It is very likely that we are causing global warming. However, it is also likely that global cooling can occur and this is at least as concerning.

In a bigger sense, I wonder if we ought consider the possibility that we are actually, albeit accidentally, involved in climate control. That in itself, carries enormous social responsibility, as your ‘good’ weather will someone else’s ‘bad’ weather. However, we might all be able to get behind that idea

Having frozen in the winter in the UK when I was young; I can tell you without reservation that the perfect winter temperatures and the 95% humidity at 95oF for 3 summer months that I experience in Texas, is an enormous improvement.

Yours hoping we will soon return to an age of reason rather than one of belief.

U.N. IPCC scales back climate change report

Pete Chagnon - OneNewsNow - 4/8/2008 10:45:00 AM
Marc Morano, a spokesperson from the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee minority staff, says the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is scaling back on its previous dire predictions of catastrophic climate change.

The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW) says that with each successive report from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), there is less cause for alarm than previously thought. Morano points out that in the recent 2007 report, man’s alleged impact on “global warming” was scaled back by 25 percent while ocean-level rise was also reduced.

According to Morano, this is the 13th year that rapid warming has been predicted and advertised in the media by Al Gore and the U.N., but it has failed to occur. “So at some point, they’re getting worried — and now you have record winter in the Northern Hemisphere and record winter in the Southern Hemisphere, [as well as] global cooling to the extent from 2007 to 2008 that was rather significant and surprised a lot of scientists,” Morano contends.

He also says the U.N. is realizing and acknowledging that there is continually less cause for alarm on the subject.

“And now you have a cooling …. [But] NASA scientist James Hansen [is] trying to say ‘well, warming will resume soon, but this is just [a] natural factor [with] the ocean circulation,’ but the fact of the matter is the head of the U.N. [IPCC] Rajendra Pachauri came out recently and said we have to investigate this apparent temperature plateau,” Morano notes.

The Senate committee staff member contends Al Gore is currently trying to sidestep the issue.