Cool Breeze Chills Global Warming Hot Air

Cool Breeze Chills Global Warming Hot Air

by Mark Luedtke

I haven't enjoyed a comfortable spring like this since I was a kid. This is the kind of spring we loved back in the 70s, when climate change alarmists were warning that the world was plunging into a new ice age. Now, despite having no evidence that man-made CO2 is the cause for the warming of the last 30 years, those same alarmists are warning of run-away global warming. They were wrong then, and they're wrong now.

Like prophets and doomsayers of every age, the global warming alarmists can't make nature behave the way they want it to. For all the talk about the dangers and effects of global warming, the warmest years on record is still a tie between 1934 and 1998. Since 1998, global temperatures have fallen. The highest temperatures ever recorded in America were during the '30s. If man dangerously heated the planet for the entire 20^th century, how come it's not as hot now as it was in the '30s? The more scientists learn about climate the more they realize they don't know. The more climate change alarmists learn about climate, they more they dissemble to try and stay relevant.

Climate scientists recently deciphered several natural climate cycles that are responsible for the rising global temperatures for the last 3 decades. It turns out that natural ocean cycles, the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) and the Atlantic Meridonal Oscillation (AMO), have both been in their warm phases for the last few decades, and are both shifting to their cool phases. The combination of the natural cycles of warm PDO, AMO, and El Nino intersected to make 1998 as hot as 1934, not man-made CO2. Worse yet for the global warming alarmists, the consensus among climatologists, and this is a real consensus unlike the falsely claimed consensus that man-made CO2 is dangerous, is the planet is entering a period of global cooling.

Even global warming alarmists have been forced to admit that natural climate cycles outweigh any impact on climate by man and that the planet is going to cool for the next 10 to 20 years, at least. Cooling has already started. Last year, global temperatures dropped by 0.7 degrees Celsius. That's almost as much cooling in 1 year as all the warming in the entire 20^th century. Now that's newsworthy, but you'll have a hard time finding a story on it.

The alarmists dealt with this admission predictably - they changed their story. They claimed they expected global cooling all along. Funny, they never mentioned that. The IPCC reports from 2001 and 2007, the alarmists' bible from just last year and earlier, never mentioned global cooling. Al Gore's film never mentioned it. I've read hundreds of global warming news stories in the last few years, and not one mentioned global cooling along the way. The global warming alarmists are scrambling, and they'll say anything to keep their fraud alive. It's too lucrative for them to tell the truth.

But the news keeps getting worse. All energy on the earth comes from the sun, which makes the sun the major driver of climate, and the tiniest change in solar output or activity affects Earth's climate. Upcoming solar cycle 24 started late, and not just a little bit late. Solar cycle 24 started over a year late, and still shows no signs of surpassing cycle 23 any time soon. The last time a new solar cycle started this late was in 1790, when an entire sunspot cycle was virtually missed. Called the Dalton Minimum, this period of no sunspot activity chilled the planet for 40 years to point where the Thames regularly froze over in London.

We're facing the specter of significant global cooling, harsh winters, shortened growing seasons, and crop failures. And about the only thing we can do about it is add CO2 to the atmosphere, not because CO2 warms the planet, it has only a minuscule effect on climate, but because CO2 is a plant food. CO2 makes plants grow bigger and faster, which could help offset the shortened growing seasons that result from global cooling. CO2 is good for the environment and humanity.

But the climate change alarmists have momentum in government. Their agenda, the new communism, resonates with power-hungry professional politicians. Despite the solid evidence we're facing a global cooling problem and never were facing a global warming problem, the politicians have seized the anti-capitalist attack on man-made CO2 to boost their power at our expense. The British parliament is debating a carbon rationing card. Except for government officials, of course, Britons would have to ask permission to board an airplane, get gas, or turn up their thermostats. Your carbon papers, comrade!

Polar bear numbers are at record levels, between 20,000 and 25,000, yet Marxists posing as environmentalists succeeded in listing polar bears as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. This is the first time that a species has been listed based solely on climate computer models – models that aren't peer accepted because they don't work when run backwards, and are therefore proven inaccurate. Within a week of polar bears being listed, the Marxists filed suit to force the administration to consider man-made CO2 in every US development – ostensibly to protect the polar bears – but in reality to cripple America's economic development.

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton support draconian carbon caps, and John McCain supports the Warner-Lieberman bill, misnamed the Climate Security Act, a carbon cap and trade policy that's really a hidden tax that hasn't worked in Europe. The bill also mandates carbon sequestration, a technology that doesn't exist because there's no market for it. All these programs would put Americans out of work, increase poverty throughout the country and the world, and leave more people unable to adapt to global cooling. Despite more effective reduction in CO2 emissions by the private sector in the US than government mandates in Europe, both Democrat and Republican politicians prefer government mandates that harm Americans but boost the politicians' power. These plans will cost lives.

12,000 years ago, the leading edge of a glacier rested in Moraine, Ohio, giving the town its name. Humans didn't make that glacier advance or retreat, we adapted. We don't understand the cycles of the Earth and sun, let alone have the power to control them. Our species is so successful because our big brains enable us to adapt, and the solution to inevitable climate change has always been to grow our wealth so we can better adapt, but first we have to overcome the self-serving agendas of the anthropogenic global warming con-men and our power-hungry politicians.