If you’re just an average American you probably don’t know that since 1998 worldwide temperatures have been getting cooler. It’s probably because the billion-dollar global warming industry has been spending so much of its time convincing anyone who will listen that we’re on the edge of catastrophe. Al Gore promised that the “entire north polar ice cap will be completely gone in five years” just last December. No one told him that last year’s Arctic ice extent was normal (this year as well).
So what is an alarmist to do? The world isn’t warming, the ice isn’t melting, and Al Gore is going around making a fool of himself. The time has come to move the goalposts. Watts Up With That? has all the details. Watts points out the absurdity of the alarmist blog Real Climate and its take on the Global Climate Change forum.
We hypothesize that the established pre-1998 trend is the true forced warming signal, and that the climate system effectively overshot this signal in response to the 1997/98 El Niño. This overshoot is in the process of radiatively dissipating, and the climate will return to its earlier defined, greenhouse gas-forced warming signal. If this hypothesis is correct, the era of consistent record-breaking global mean temperatures will not resume until roughly 2020.
There you have it! No need to worry about warming until around 2020. Shouldn’t we be more concerned that there’s no possible way Barack Obama can be president in 2020? Perhaps we should be making arrangements to change the Constitution so that Obama can rule us forever and save the planet!
But I digress… global warming isn’t happening. There’s no evidence to suggest anything abnormal has occurred in our climate over the last 100 years. Al Gore and the rest of the alarmists should be embarrassed, but since most people don’t know or don’t care Gore and co. will continue to make ignorant speeches and get paid for it.
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