I’m forming a team to sneak into Al Gore’s spacious mansion as that day approaches to turn the heaters up to max upon the clock striking zero.

Lord knows there’s enough room in that place to hide. I just hope the heaters have enough power to heat that cavernous place.

But I should have been more wary. All the warning signs were there.

(1) Scare tactics and sensationalist articles, just like with “ozone hole, population bomb, Y2K “scares and others before this one.

(2) Reliance on computer models and consensus with scant real evidence, and some of that contradictory

(3) Adapting to the ever changing situation, Real scientific theories don’t adapt, they are either reinforced, or discarded. They don’t change when contradictory evidence is found, so that the conclusion can be kept.

That means there was a lot of vegetation — that’s one way Mother Gaia works off an excess of atmospheric carbon dioxide: it stimulates the growth of green plants.

Another mechanism is the increased uptake of carbon dioxide in the ocean, which in turn gets precipitated as calcium carbonate, or limestone. All those high concentrations of atmospheric CO2 turned into massive carbonate rock layers back in Paleozoic time. Just ask John McCain.

Seems like Mother Gaia managed to handle much higher CO2 concentrations in the past.

We have not heard from enough geologists. This is the only scientific discipline that understands time frames & previous cooling cycles.

The National Geographic Channel, Discovery Channel, Science Channel, Animal Planet, PBS… We used to joke that were it not for Hitler and Vietnam, there’d be no “educational” TV. Now the same can be said for AGW.

And the new administration has economic policy centered on carbon-reduction policy.

Us clingers out here in flyover country are just too thick to get it.

Dr. Takeda Kunihiko, vice-chancellor of the Institute of Science and Technology Research at Chubu University in Japan:

CO2 emissions make absolutely no difference one way or another. … Every scientist knows this, but it doesn’t pay to say so.

I find it interesting that finally scientists are standing up to the lie. They’re showing real professional courage doing it, now the question is, will our politicians (note: I didn’t say political leaders…) stand for truth as well?

I guess the true question is whether this low spot is colder than the last low spot (around 1997), the trend of the previous 50 low spots before that, and whether this whole mess can be linked with reasonable confidence to CO2 levels.

Remember 1998 being the hottest year on record? The only thing you can state with reasonable confidence is that the “climate experts” have no idea what they are talking about and just making things up to fit their pre-determined outcome.