''How to avert the imminent global-cooling apocalypse? Apart from a national stockpiling of foodstuffs, Newsweek hinted we might need to resort to "melting the Arctic ice cap by covering it with black soot or diverting arctic rivers." - Newsweek, 1974
Seth Borenstein, global-warming alarmist-in-chief for the Associated Press, was recently treated to a dose of climate-change reality. Waiting to enter the U.N. climate-change conference in Copenhagen, he was forced to stand in near-freezing temperatures for over seven hours.
"It was crazy. You couldn't leave the line. You couldn't go to the bathroom." Departing from the standard global-warming script, Borenstein then admitted, "Then snowflakes started falling."
In that epiphanic moment, Borenstein confronted a glimmer of the reality that all the consensus-driven, computer-modeled, end-of-the-world predictions were wrong.
Scientists (except for the global-warming hucksters, of course) generally agree the globe halted its warming trend around 1998. And some believe we are approaching a new ice aAge. That's the view of Victor Velasco Herrera at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, who predicted the onset of a "little ice age" in about 10 years.
What's the science behind that startling claim?
Dr. Roy Spencer at the University of Alabama in Huntsville runs the only satellite-based temperature data set in the world that verifies its information with independent studies. These satellite readings reveal global temperatures have been dropping since 2000 at a rate of 1.3 degrees per century. One degree in 100 years won't cause heartburn to most.
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But in the United States, Spencer's projected decline is more worrisome – nearly 9 degrees by the beginning of the 22nd century. http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=119311