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Twelve-month long drop in world temperatures wipes out a century of warming

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 nearly all 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.

Let’s hope those factors stop fast. Cold is more damaging than heat. The mean temperature of the planet is about 54 degrees. Humans — and most of the crops and animals we depend on — prefer a temperature closer to 70.

Historically, the warm periods such as the Medieval Climate Optimum were beneficial for civilization. Corresponding cooling events such as the Little Ice Age, though, were uniformly bad news

There you have it. The wheels on the Global Warming Bus have finally fallen off. Rest assured that the zealots of the Man Made Global Warming Religion will continue to drive on the rims at full speed headed straight for the ruin of modern civilization.

Paul Edwards (in Townhall.com) hits it right on the mark with his take on Joel Osteen’s comments to Byron Pitts of CBS’s 60 Minutes. Joel isn’t just soft on doctrine, he is downright anorexic. Preferring to receive praise and adoration from his “flock” Joel is always anxious to tell someone “they are ok” as opposed to “you are wrong”.

No one likes to be told they are wrong, but when dealing with the eternal soul and our relationship to God in heaven, one had better have got as many I’s and T’s dotted and crossed before being called home and called to account for every word let dropped to the ground.

And maybe worst of all, the hope Joel engenders with his “power of the positive attitude” sermons to his following is a false hope. While scripture entreats us to place our faith and lives into the hands of Jesus Christ, Joel is happy to repeat stories and anecdotes from Dale Carnegie or Tony Robbins.

Christianity isn’t all gumdrops and lollipops. It is serious and God takes very seriously those who put themselves up as teachers amongst His people. Especially if what they are teaching is contrary to His Word, and in Joel’s case, completely lacking His Word whatsoever.

If you must find a media-type personality to follow, try R.C. Sproul. Not only will you be sitting under a teacher who stands head and shoulders above EVERY prosperity gospel preacher, you will have the added benefit of R.C.’s special wit and wisdom.

Tony Blankley did such a fine job explaining how Carbon Offsets actually work I have to pass it along for everyone to enjoy.

…carbon offsets are a rather strange concept. Let me use a simple metaphor to explain it: Let’s suppose that Al Gore goes to an Italian restaurant and eats a loaf of garlic bread, a plate of lasagna, a bowl of spaghetti and meatballs, an extra-large pizza with seven toppings, a couple bottles of Chianti and a large assortment of pastries. As a result, he puts on 10 pounds. But he is deeply concerned that mankind is getting too fat. So he pays 10 peasants in Asia $10 each to eat nothing for a week. Although they are already thin, by starving themselves for a week, they each lose a pound. As a result, after a week, mankind is weight neutral. Al Gore weighs 10 pounds more, 10 Asians weigh 10 pounds less — and Al Gore is given another Nobel Peace Prize for his leadership in keeping mankind’s waistline in check.

And there you have it.  Wonderful metaphor, wonderful example, and another great atta-boy to everyone that voted to keep this glittering jewel of colossal ignorance away from the White House.

What is left to say? I thought awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to the two people who are most responsible for the eruption of global terrorism this century (Jimmy Carter and Yasser Arafat) was the absolute rock bottom and the Nobel Foundation could never find a way to disgrace itself further.

They got a shovel and began to dig.

And at the bottom of that hole was Al Gore and his now disgraced crock-u-mentary “An Inconvenient Truth.” Along with the “Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change” (notice it is inter”GOVERNMENTAL” panel, not inter”SCIENTIFIC” panel, which tells you everything you need to know about the IPCC), Al Gore has succeeded in disgracing not only the Academy Awards, The Emmy Awards, but now the Nobel Foundation.

In my previous article I ruminated about him faking a Tony Award. I forgot that he was in the running the disgrace the Nobel Foundation to the point of making it a mockery.

What else is left to say? Not much except so long and thanks for all the fish.

WE APOLOGIZE FOR THE INCONVENIENCE

With Sony going commercial with their first OLED Televisions this week I got to reading about Organic LED technology. This got me to thinking. What if the substrate used to help hold the organic layers in place were not plastic but human flesh?

Think of it. We already have implantable chips. We have found ways to fuse neurons with computer circuitry and pass signals back and forth. We can grow human ears of the backs of laboratory mice. We can transplant skin and organs. Why not push the envelope and see if OLED technology can fuse with true organic material like human skin?

Imagine a tattoo that can be programmed! One moment it is a wizard, the next it is a lion, the next it is the physics equations for that big exam. Mix in some extra circuitry and programming and have it connected to an implanted chip and presto! Mood Flesh! Angry? Your OLED tattoo flashes red in anger. Sad? A low pulsing blue tone. Talk about the human cuttlefish!

Just an interesting thought experiment. Do you think it is possible? Drop me a note.