Sorry to break in with heresy against the new religion of Global Warmism but there is reason to think that the Sun may have something to do with the climate, maybe even more than CO2.

Remember the Arctic Sea ice? The ice we were told so hysterically last fall had melted to its “lowest levels on record? Never mind that those records only date back as far as 1972 and that there is anthropological and geological evidence of much greater melts in the past.

The ice is back.

Gilles Langis, a senior forecaster with the Canadian Ice Service in Ottawa, says the Arctic winter has been so severe the ice has not only recovered, it is actually 10 to 20 cm thicker in many places than at this time last year. There is more ice in the Arctic this year than last, and Siberia, China, and northern Canada are covered in snow. Snow cover over North America and much of Siberia, Mongolia and China is greater than at any time since 1966.

Look out for Global Cooling.

Ice Ages are far more to be feared than warming. And I remind you, in the last Real Ice Age, Southern England and Belgium went from deciduous trees to a hundred feet of ice in about 100 years, according to lake sediments. That is a very rapid cooling indeed. And the ice reaches miles in depth in some places, like Wisconsin.

The last time the sun was this inactive, Earth suffered the Little Ice Age that lasted about five centuries and ended in 1850. http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=332289

Last month, Oleg Sorokhtin, a fellow of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, shrugged off manmade climate change as “a drop in the bucket.” Showing that solar activity has entered an inactive phase, Prof. Sorokhtin advised people to “stock up on fur coats.”

He is not alone. Kenneth Tapping of our own National Research Council, who oversees a giant radio telescope focused on the sun, is convinced we are in for a long period of severely cold weather if sunspot activity does not pick up soon.

The last time the sun was this inactive, Earth suffered the Little Ice Age that lasted about five centuries and ended in 1850. Crops failed through killer frosts and drought. Famine, plague and war were widespread. Harbours froze, so did rivers, and trade ceased.

Maybe a little actual science would be in order here, instead of a new religion.

Hate to break it to the deniers, but the global cooling excuse is a myth: http://www.usatoday.com/weather/climate/globalwarming/2008-02-20-global-cooling_N.htm

There never was a consensus on that issue like there is on THE NOBEL PRIZE WINNING IPCC.

Acknowleding global warming is not a religion, it’s an acceptance that science, reason, and logic, are real.

Good thing the political elites of both parties continually represent the interests of Wisconsinites as a whole, or even their own constituencies… oh wait, they don’t, and they never have.

Sorry 11:07 but your link relates to the 1970’s - not to today.

Now that we have even colder weather than in the 70s perhaps new data should be incorporated into the super secret climate models of the Global Warmism High Priests:

“That was an unusually cold decade, especially the later years, across the Northern Hemisphere. In the USA, the winters of 1977-79 were three of the 11 coldest since the recording of temperatures began in the 1890s, according to climate center data. The winter of 1978-79 remains the coldest on record in the USA.”

Harry, Your article is based on multiple false premises embedded in your statement: “….require the state to sharply reduce the main cause of global warming, carbon dioxide pollution.”

1) Global warming is a hypothesis much in debate and increasingly refuted by rigorous analyses.

2) Assigning ‘carbon dioxide pollution’ as the root cause of ‘global warming’ adds another unverified hypothesis to item 1).

3) Assigning corrective action responsibility to the State Legislature for unconfirmed hypotheses not only wastes precious tax dollars and needlessly redirects limited assests, it’s just plain dumb.

Re-analyses of the data used by the UN-IPCC to support their claim that carbon dioxide (CO2)causes global warming has shown that to be untrue. In the many centuries long data set used by the UN-IPCC, close examination of the data shows that sometimes CO2 content went up before planetary warming did… and other times CO2 did not increase until many decades after significant warming had already taken place. To validate the hypothesis that CO2 causes Global Warming, increases in the CO2 content MUST occur BEFORE or concurrent with the increase in planetary heating. Re-analyses of the UN-IPCC data sets have shown this to be unambiguously false. The “Global Warming Caused By Increasing Carbon Dioxide” hypothesis is not supported by the data.

Take a deep breath… or a valium, if needed, and be assured that CO2 will not cause “the potential annihilation of life as we know it” anymore than hyper inflated, over heated rhetoric by editorial writers causes Global Warming. Castigating honest, knowledeable, well reasoned scientific analyses that refute the UN-IPCC conclusions as the bleating of ‘Deniers’ is the artifice of religious believers and those with a vested interest in sustaining the deceit. Urging state, national, and global action based on a false premise is the territory of fools.

The knowledgeable 9:17am post touches on the ‘Maunder Minimum’, a centuries long period in which solar sunspot activity dropped to much lower levels than we have seen in the last century. This protracted period of low sunspot activity exactly correlates with what was a protracted period (centuries) of colder than ‘normal’ weather around the planet. Note that this correlation of low sunspot solar activity to planetary cooling spans centuries. When sunspot activity finally increased again in the eighteen hundreds, the planet began warming up again. Good correlation between increased sunspot activity and global warming is established fact. Combined, they provide a scientifically reliable baseline for modeling the primary cause of Global Warming and Cooling: Our Sun. It shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone but the politcally motivated (Al Gore, the UN, etc), the financially motivated (those depending on Global Warming funding to sustain their trajicly misguided careers) or the scientific illiterate that the SUN is the overwhelming control factor for heating and cooling on our planet.

We have had a century and a half of planetary warming. Now Old Sol has once again nearly ceased spawning visible sunspots…. and we are having a colder than normal winter. It’s all natural and there is nothing the State or Federal Government, UN, Ghandi, or Barack Obama can do about it.

The Goracle is making a fortune on speaking fees, movie profits and carbon offsets - all in part due to the religion of Global Warmism.

Now THAT’S an “Inconvenient Truth”.

I’ll bet right now that, when the spring thaw begins, any flooding that occurs as this winters deep accumulations of snow and ice melt will be Heralded as yet another ‘Sign of Global Warming’.

See reference below for one of the increasing body of scientific analyses repudiating the “Carbon Dioxide Pollution Causes Global Warming” hypothesis touted by the UN-IPCC report. This will help your understanding of the topic. As the lyrics of an old tune profoundly state “If you believe in things that you don’t understand then you’ll suffer, superstition ain’t the way”. Set aside your ‘beliefs’ and learn the facts. That’s what you are supposed to do in college…… try it!

Reference: Environmental Effects of Increased Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide ARTHUR B. ROBINSON, et.al. Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, http://www.jpands.org/vol12no3/robinson600.pdf

BURN THE HERETICS!

No Wait, that would increase the CO2.