THE HYPOCRISY OF COPENHAGEN AND GLOBAL COOLING

The politicians and lobbyists have flown into Copenhagen on 140 luxurious private jets and are being chauffeured around in 1,200 gas-guzzling limousines. They’re in the Danish capital to save the planet from global warming, the master plan to implement a worldwide carbon tax. But despite their insistence the science definitely isn’t settled, the data must be questioned and the debate most certainly is not over.

The CO2 footprint of the conference will amount to no less than 41,000 tons, equal to that produced by an African country over the same period. The total number of electric cars or hybrids among that number? Five. It is another stark reminder that if human-induced global warming is the most serious threat to mankind, their behaviour is completely at odds with it and how they are indignantly demanding we live our lives. It just doesn’t add up, does it?

I haven’t written about climate change since September 2008, why? I’m still waiting for the planet to warm up so there is something new to add. But have the scientists been able to produce unequivocal evidence that shows the planet is warming due to human activity? They are unable to as conceded in the leaked Climategate e-mails.

All the evidence screams out is that the planet has embarked on a cooling trend to follow the natural warming trend that caused Arctic ice to shrink in the first place, just as natural global warming caused Greenland to be green thousands of years ago when it was a lush forest and when temperatures were on average 5 °C (9 °F) higher than today.

But the high priests of the religion of global warming are not apt to allow anything, not even record low temperatures, to challenge their collective belief system, which is why “global warming” quickly began being referred to as “climate change” after global warming tailed off following the end of the last century.

Empirical satellite data shows that mean global temperatures are the same that they were 30 years ago and that global sea ice is also at similar levels. Following a spike in global temperatures at the end of the last century that coincided with the sun undergoing its most active period in recent times, the planet has now cooled to 1979 levels.

In October last year it was reported the Alaskan glaciers had grown for the first time in 250 years after an abnormally cool summer. Temperatures three degrees below average caused winter snow to remain for longer, prompting the increase in glacial mass.

Since 1946, the USGS has maintained a research project measuring the state of Alaskan glaciers. The year saw records broken for most snow build up. It was also the first time since any records began being that the glaciers did not shrink during the summer months. The biggest shrinkage witnessed in the region occurred between 1741 and 1900, during which the glaciers lost about 15 per cent of their total mass as the earth began to exit the climatological period coined the Little Ice Age.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but CO2 spewing cars and jumbo jets were not too prevalent in the 18th and 19th centuries. And now that the planet has naturally exited a warming trend and is heading towards a new big chill, as evidenced by the near complete halt in sunspot activity, the glaciers are expanding once again.

The expansion of the glaciers followed a similar occurrence in the Arctic, which underwent an ice cover growth twice the size of Germany, a gain of about thirteen percent following a colder than usual year. Coinciding with expanding ice sheets, there has been no rise in sea levels for the past three years.

Evidence that the planet is tip-toeing towards the onset of a new mini ice age continues to present itself following unprecedented ice storms in Kenya as well as Sydney experiencing its coldest August for 60 years. The cold snap arrives on the back of the Sun reaching a milestone not observed in nearly 100 years – August last year passed without a single sunspot being noted.

Lack of solar activity has coincided with evidence of a cooling trend across the world. China experienced its coldest winter in 100 years while northeast America was hit by record snow levels. Summer heat continues in short supply, continuing a trend that has dominated much of the 21st Century’s opening decade. Tropical storms and extreme weather events attributed to global warming like hurricanes and typhoons are also at a record low.

Man-made global warming adherents have attempted to downplay such instances as aberrations that defy a wider warming trend, but in reality no global warming has been observed since at least 1998, as I detailed back in August 2008.

AMERICA WAKING UP TO BARACK OBAMA

In November last year the day after Barack Obama was named US President-elect I wrote this about how his Presidency would look. One year on the breakneck deterioration of his approval rating has surpassed even my expectations.

Obama’s approval rating is currently below 50% making him the fourth-fastest President at the same stage of his first term for more than 50 years to drop below majority support. He is hovering just above the level that would make re-election an uphill struggle and is very close to an historic bottom for a newly-elected president. To give a comparison George Bush’s approval rating only fell below 50% in his third year in office.

America is waking up to the fact that they have been duped again. His healthcare reforms are massively unpopular, the dollar is headed for a crash aided by his economic policies - the country's federal budget deficit currently stands at $1.4 trillion (up $962 billion on the previous year) 10.2% of the American population is jobless, that is 8.2 million people out of work with no sign of it abating, and twelve months on we're still waiting to hear what he is going to do in Afghanistan. You may well remember this:


Many Americans took it to the bank but Barack Obama lied to them.

It has been a year of broken promises, a change for the worse and the realisation that there is little hope in Barack Obama - just as I said there wouldn't be.

THE GREAT EU DEBATE

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