Straws in the Wind 1
Even the New York Times and Nature--hardly mad, right-wing 'denialists' of the sort normally decried by global warming believers--have started placing articles about global cooling.
It seems that we are now nearly a month and a half into a 'delayed' solar cycle 24, and it seems quieter than predicted, though scientists are rightly reluctant to make great assertions.
We face the dawning realisation that the sun is much more important than so-called 'greenhouse gases' in the temperature of the earth than many have allowed themselves to see. Day after day, questions arise over the placement and effectiveness of global temperature monitoring stations and over the consequent statistics.
Yet still we do not launch ourselves on the effort to develop nuclear fusion, clean coal, and a clear view of exactly what is happening to the climate. Instead, a vast political lobby funded by activists and executed by people without proper science backgrounds is engaged in a project of social control and taxation that will, utterly predictably, end in tears. And a serious and deepening recession is diverting people from the very real chance that oil will rebound and strike those, like this country, who have become dependent upon it, very badly indeed. Peak oil has not gone away; it is just that the recession has bought time.
So, we wait blithely as our economies burn for the cold. The Gods of the Copybook Headings spring to mind. Here's a video of Titus Andronicus telling his and Rome's sorrows to the stones since none else would listen....
Even the New York Times and Nature--hardly mad, right-wing 'denialists' of the sort normally decried by global warming believers--have started placing articles about global cooling.
It seems that we are now nearly a month and a half into a 'delayed' solar cycle 24, and it seems quieter than predicted, though scientists are rightly reluctant to make great assertions.
We face the dawning realisation that the sun is much more important than so-called 'greenhouse gases' in the temperature of the earth than many have allowed themselves to see. Day after day, questions arise over the placement and effectiveness of global temperature monitoring stations and over the consequent statistics.
Yet still we do not launch ourselves on the effort to develop nuclear fusion, clean coal, and a clear view of exactly what is happening to the climate. Instead, a vast political lobby funded by activists and executed by people without proper science backgrounds is engaged in a project of social control and taxation that will, utterly predictably, end in tears. And a serious and deepening recession is diverting people from the very real chance that oil will rebound and strike those, like this country, who have become dependent upon it, very badly indeed. Peak oil has not gone away; it is just that the recession has bought time.
So, we wait blithely as our economies burn for the cold. The Gods of the Copybook Headings spring to mind. Here's a video of Titus Andronicus telling his and Rome's sorrows to the stones since none else would listen....
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