I started to smell some reports on this about nine or ten months ago (maybe as long as 18 months) and the facts are fast starting to build to an obvious crescendo. The planet is cooling. And fast.



One the latest articles has been written by Dr. David Evans, a consultant to the Australian Greenhouse Office from 1999 to 2005. Dr. Evans, previously a Global Warming™ alarmist (his term not mine), now points out that since 1999 the evidence of CO2 being the cause of Global Warming™ has weakened. The money shot from Dr. Evans:

1. The greenhouse signature is missing. We have been looking and measuring for years, and cannot find it.

Each possible cause of global warming has a different pattern of where in the planet the warming occurs first and the most. The signature of an increased greenhouse effect is a hot spot about 10km up in the atmosphere over the tropics. We have been measuring the atmosphere for decades using radiosondes: weather balloons with thermometers that radio back the temperature as the balloon ascends through the atmosphere. They show no hot spot. Whatsoever.

If there is no hot spot then an increased greenhouse effect is not the cause of global warming. So we know for sure that carbon emissions are not a significant cause of the global warming. If we had found the greenhouse signature then I would be an alarmist again.

Rather than me take away all of Dr. Evan's fun you can read the full article [here]. Meanwhile a few months ago a Canadian outfit (the National Post) layed out a number of facts that have been cited by the more level-headed among us but derided by the eco-facists [Link]. Some of the points:

~ In one year we've had the fastest temperature change ever recorded, up or down [Link].

~ Record cold temperatures in January and early February all over the globe.

~ Arctic ice has not only recovered, it is actually 10 to 20 cm thicker than at this time last year.

~ Oleg Sorokhtin, at the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, shrugged off manmade climate change as "a drop in the bucket." and based on the new evidence is advising people to "stock up on fur coats."

Meanwhile, DailyTech, a very good science blog, is reporting that a "Twelve-month long drop in world temperatures wipes out a century of warming". Read that [Here] or a NOAA report here [Here].

It's no secret where I stand on the Global Warming™ or the Climate Change™ issue (the eco-facists keep changing it to suit the argument). I believe that Global Warming™ from man's activity is a bunch of hooey. That is not to say that we shouldn't be good stewards of the environment (no peeing in the rivers). Just on the face of it doesn't make common sense. For example, C02 is only 2% of the total of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and of that portion, man contributes .28%! I find it hard to fathom that a quarter of a percent wreaks the havoc the enviro-facists subscribe to. Just on that fact alone, the theory of Human Induced Global Warming™ is crazy. Add to that inaccurate climate modeling, facts not matching the statements (enviro-fascists like Al Gore say that C02 levels cause temperature rises when they actually follow by as much as 800 years), evidence that Global Warming™ is caused simply by the activity of the sun and you have a theory that is starting to come apart at the seams.

So where do we go from here? Who knows. At this point the politicians, always behind the curve, and their sycophants on the political left with skin in the game (Al Gore for example), are trying to ride Global Warming into controlling every aspect of your life. From the cars you drive (and how far) to stuffing you into block apartments to where you buy food to how you carry it home. If they are left unchallenged the top down control of society that the book 1984 outlines will be a mere walk in the park in comparison.