According to the latest measurements, the polar ice cap in the Arctic is substantially larger than normal with ice stretching from Canada across the pole to the Siberian shores of Russia. This is 60% more ice coverage than this time last year according to reports. The presence of all this additional ice is yet another indicator that the predicted global warming has not arrived and, in fact, seems to be reversing. Now there is talk that instead of warming, the Earth may be entering a ten or fifteen year cooling phase that would basically undo all of the warming of the last 30 years.
There are only two conclusions that one ought to draw from this news.
First, the global warming theorists and those who support them (like Al Gore) have been wrong. The carbon dioxide emissions of man have not shifted the balance of nature towards unrelenting warming of the Earth. Their computer models have not only been wrong as to the magnitude of warming (which is clearly the case); they have also been wrong as to the direction of the temperature changes. No matter how you slice it, cooling is not warming. While this crowd has yet to admit that it has been wrong, there is no reason to pay attention to their hysteria any longer.
Second, the current predictions of global cooling are likewise undeserving of much credence. The truth is that world climatological predictions are extraordinarily unreliable. It is maniacal for governments to spend billions of dollars to deal with these predictions or to reorient their economies to change carbon dioxide emissions.
We still live in a country where our leaders give lip service to climate change. Right now, the big argument against approval of the Keystone Pipeline and the 60,000 jobs it will create is that it might contribute to global warming. President Obama still talks about global warming as a reality. That has to end. Politicians can have different views as to how to grow the economy; we all know that. No leader, however, should make policy on the basis of a theory that has now been disproven. It would be like designing navy ships with special equipment that would go into action were the ship to sail off the edge of the flat Earth.
There are only two conclusions that one ought to draw from this news.
First, the global warming theorists and those who support them (like Al Gore) have been wrong. The carbon dioxide emissions of man have not shifted the balance of nature towards unrelenting warming of the Earth. Their computer models have not only been wrong as to the magnitude of warming (which is clearly the case); they have also been wrong as to the direction of the temperature changes. No matter how you slice it, cooling is not warming. While this crowd has yet to admit that it has been wrong, there is no reason to pay attention to their hysteria any longer.
Second, the current predictions of global cooling are likewise undeserving of much credence. The truth is that world climatological predictions are extraordinarily unreliable. It is maniacal for governments to spend billions of dollars to deal with these predictions or to reorient their economies to change carbon dioxide emissions.
We still live in a country where our leaders give lip service to climate change. Right now, the big argument against approval of the Keystone Pipeline and the 60,000 jobs it will create is that it might contribute to global warming. President Obama still talks about global warming as a reality. That has to end. Politicians can have different views as to how to grow the economy; we all know that. No leader, however, should make policy on the basis of a theory that has now been disproven. It would be like designing navy ships with special equipment that would go into action were the ship to sail off the edge of the flat Earth.
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