by Mark Luedtke

Created on: June 20, 2008

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 20th 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 20th 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

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