Abu Wabu

Ever since Al Gore promised me that the Earth would soon warm to the point that I could travel from Chicago to Phoenix in a sailboat, I've been dreaming of living in the New Northern Tropics. Ocean breezes, a perpetual tan, drinks with the little umbrellas, all in the comfort of my very own all-inclusive Reykjavic timeshare. Now, those dreams are as dead as a drowned polar bear. The jig is up, folks. The planet is going to freeze:

Over the past year, anecdotal evidence for a cooling planet has exploded. China has its coldest winter in 100 years. Baghdad sees its first snow in all recorded history. North America has the most snowcover in 50 years, with places like Wisconsin the highest since record-keeping began. Record levels of Antarctic sea ice, record cold in Minnesota, Texas, Florida, Mexico, Australia, Iran, Greece, South Africa, Greenland, Argentina, Chile -- the list goes on and on.

No more than anecdotal evidence, to be sure. But now, that evidence has been supplanted by hard scientific fact. All four major global temperature tracking outlets (Hadley, NASA's GISS, UAH, RSS) have released updated data. All show that over the past year, global temperatures have dropped precipitously.

A compiled list of all the sources can be seen here. The total amount of cooling ranges from 0.65C up to 0.75C -- a value large enough to wipe out most of the warming recorded over the past 100 years. All in one year's time. For all four sources, it's the single fastest temperature change ever recorded, either up or down.

Scientists quoted in a past DailyTech article link the cooling to reduced solar activity which they claim is a much larger driver of climate change than man-made greenhouse gases. The dramatic cooling seen in just 12 months time seems to bear that out. While the data doesn't itself disprove that carbon dioxide is acting to warm the planet, it does demonstrate clearly that more powerful factors are now cooling it.

Kyoto has always been a fucking joke. Flash: Earth's temperature changes are the result of solar activity and not SUV-driving soccer moms.

Duh.

Query: How long before Al Gore and his band of envirofascists find a way to scam the New Global Cooling Disaster?

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