THE Inconvenient Truth

Inconvenient facts for the crowd that claims that skeptics have their heads in the sand:

The supposed ‘consensus’ on man-made global warming is facing an inconvenient challenge after the release of new temperature data showing the planet has not warmed for the past 15 years.

The figures suggest that we could even be heading for a mini ice age to rival the 70-year temperature drop that saw frost fairs held on the Thames in the 17th Century.

Based on readings from more than 30,000 measuring stations, the data was issued last week without fanfare by the Met Office and the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit. It confirms that the rising trend in world temperatures ended in 1997.

 

Comments

[Stormy]

No biggie. We now have to campaign to reduce fossil fuels to fight global cooling. You see, we are very flexible in our ideology.

[Ken Hill]

When I look in a mirror, I see that some might take me to be a fossil. Wait, Obamacare will eliminate that class of people. One way or another, the fossils have had it.

[Axelskater]

Favorite Matt Patterson quote:
Only a generation as narcissistic as the baby boomers would assume that the temperature they were accustomed to as they came of age in the mid-20th century is the "correct" or "average" global temperature, which must be maintained in perpetuity no matter the costs.

[Spag]

Exactly right. The 19th century was cooler and I don't suppose the people then thought anything was wrong.