Thursday, January 2, 2014

Welcome to the Ice Age

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mike-ciandella/2014/01/02/frozen-out-98-stories-ignore-ice-bound-ship-was-global-warming-missi

It is summer in the southern hemisphere.  Shouldn't the ice have melted?  It is entertaining that a ship out to talk about global warming should get stuck in ice.  Poetic justice.  It reminds me of the Global Warming hearing that was canceled last March because of a snow storm.  If this sort of thing persists for a few more years, the climate change lobby will start saying we are headed for a man-made ice age and only new government regulations and taxes can save us.
 
Then there is this:
 
 
Records only go back to the 1880s and this is only the first time in 20 years that lows outnumbered highs but it is an interesting point on the graph.  The climate is on a cycle measured in centuries or even millennia, not decades.

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