Yes, it has been getting colder, but the Global Warming boffins plead "Guilty....but with an explanation:"
Global temperatures to decreaseNow, should that happen and then should there be another cold spell, it won't matter because -- given this line of what passes for thinking (or should I say "thinging?") there will be another warm spell along "within five years or less.""La Nina is part of what we call 'variability'. There has always been and there will always be cooler and warmer years, but what is important for climate change is that the trend is up."
Experts at the UK Met Offices Hadley Centre for forecasting in Exeter said the world could expect another record temperature within five years or less, probably associated with another episode of El Nino.
Sigh. It all takes me back to 1961 when Peter Cook and Dudley Moore ripped off this little comedy sketch in The End Of The World
Posted by Vanderleun at April 5, 2008 1:44 PM | TrackBackJon : When will it be, this end of which you have spoken?
Omnes : Aye, when will it be - when will it be?
Peter : In about thirty seconds time, according to the ancient pyramidic scrolls... and my Ingersoll watch.
Jon : Shall we compose ourselves, then?
Peter : Good plan, Brother Pithy. Prepare for the End of the World! Fifteen seconds...
Alan : Have we got the canned food?
Dudley : Yes.
Peter : Ten seconds...
Jon : And the can-opener?
Dudley : Yes.
Peter : Five - four - three - two - one - Zero!
Omnes : (Chanting) Now is the end - Perish The World!
A pause
Peter : It was GMT, wasn't it?
Jon : Yes.
Peter : Well, it's not quite the conflagration I'd been banking on. Never mind, lads, same time tomorrow... we must get a winner one day.
Life is only simple in sermons and revenge fantasies. In real life life is complicated, with things happening you didn't expect, and some you should've expected. Climate has always run in cycles, and extra CO2 in the air aint gonna change that. About the only thing one can say with confidence is that worldwide climate is going to be unsettled, and that has come true.
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