No Global Warming In 18 Years

by JASmius



Funny how the "inconvenient truths" all seem to be on the other side of the ideological ledger these days, huh? (via Newsmax Insider:

On September 21st, an estimated 300,000-plus demonstrators turned out for the People's Climate March in New York City to call for international action against climate change.

Two days later, President Obama addressed the United Nations General Assembly and called on all countries to cut carbon emissions "right now."

And eight days after that, October 1st, will mark 18 consecutive years without global warming.

There has been "no significant warming trend in surface average temperature" in those 18 years, said Patrick Michaels, director of the Cato Institute's Center for the Study of Science....

Michaels pointed to findings by the University of Illinois' Polar Ice Research Center that Antarctic ice "is at its highest extent measured by the current microwave satellite sounding system" since 1978.

"And if you take a close look at the Arctic data, it appears the decline [in polar ice] stopped around 2005/2006, which means we've almost had 10 years without any net loss in Arctic ice."

And all of that despite the fact that the ChiComms and Indians are pumping out carbon like there's no tomorrow.  Makes you think, doesn't it?

Makes me think that nature even just on this one small planet is enormously vaster than little, insignificant homo sapiens can affect simply by existing.  It sounds rather conceited when you stop and think about it.  It also sells nature short; I mean, if this is a fully developed "Gaia" type ecosystem, if Earth is "alive" in even a metaphorical sense, then it must have natural coping mechanisms, yes?  Like an immune system?  And, whaddaya know, remember how the Deep Water Horizon oil spill four years ago in the Gulf of Mexico was resolved by natural means without much input from tiny ol' mankind?  It's not as if the planet hasn't suffered major, cataclysmic climatic disruptions in the past, right?  If it's really 4.6 billion years old (which it isn't, but you get my point).  Why do greenstremists have so little confidence in "Mother Earth"?

The other thing it makes me think is that it's odd how the ChiComms and Indians are always, for whatever reason, cut a pass on their egregious "greenhouse emissions," while the West in general and the United States in particular, which has already significantly reduced its carbon emissions at enormous cost and has done more for environmental quality than any nation ever, is relentlessly flogged by these same selectively blind-eyed people as Public Climate Enemy #1.  Largely because the beleaguered U.S. middle class still exists, I'm guessing.  Because, as we're all supposed to know and understand, the greatest threat to the planet is a healthy, robust, and prosperous U.S. middle class.

Al Gore and other climate change alarmists will have to concede that their predictions of catastrophic global warming were off by a long shot, Michaels, who has a doctorate in ecological climatology, told CNS News.

"It has to be admitted eventually that too much warming was forecast too fast," he said. "This just has to happen. You can't go on and on and on.

To quote the noted climatologist Bugs Bunny, "He don't know them vewy well, DO he?"