If you’ve been following the saga of Global Warming, AKA Climate Change when the temperature doesn’t follow the zealots’ computer models, you’ve heard that the sky is falling and that if we don’t do as the proponents of the upcoming disaster say, we’re all going to drown, starve or come to a horrible sticky end. If you ask Al Gore, he’ll tell you that it’s already too late. The problem, according to the organizers of this doomsday cult, is human activity. We’re simply not green enough and we are increasing the amount of Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere. CO₂ is a by-product of respiration. Every living creature exhales the allegedly evil substance with every breath. Just about the time people and corporations are signing on to this nonsense; we are now learning that Global Warming may be put on hold for a few years, due to Ocean Cooling.

The Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences said, “Average temperatures in areas such as California and France may drop over the next 10 years, influenced by colder flows in the North Atlantic, said a report by the institution based in Kiel, Germany. Temperatures worldwide may stabilize in the period. The study was based on sea-surface temperatures of currents that move heat around the world, and vary from decade to decade. This regional cooling effect may temporarily neutralize the long- term warming phenomenon caused by heat-trapping greenhouse gases building up around the earth, said Richard Wood, a research scientist at the Met Office Hadley Centre, a U.K. provider of environmental and weather-related services.”

“Those natural climate variations could be stronger than the global-warming trend over the next 10-year period,'' Wood said in an interview. “Without knowing that, you might erroneously think there's no global warming going on.''

This sounds a lot like a disclaimer to explain record low temperatures over the past couple of years, and to explain in advance why Global Warming isn’t happening over the next few years. This will give them time to come up with a reason to explain why we haven’t all perished from the effects of the disastrous climate change that we’ve been promised by Al Gore and his Chicken Little toadies.

A far more reasonable explanation of the variations in earth temperatures is solar activity. Since the sun is our source of heat, it makes perfect sense that fluctuations in the sun’s output would affect the temperature of the earth.
Phil Chapman, is a geophysicist and astronautical engineer who lives in San Francisco. He was the first Australian to become a NASA astronaut; he wrote recently: “The scariest photo I have seen on the internet is www.spaceweather.com, where you will find a real-time image of the sun from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, located in deep space at the equilibrium point between solar and terrestrial gravity.

What is scary about the picture is that there is only one tiny sunspot.

Disconcerting as it may be to true believers in global warming, the average temperature on Earth has remained steady or slowly declined during the past decade, despite the continued increase in the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide, and now the global temperature is falling precipitously.

All four agencies that track Earth's temperature (the Hadley Climate Research Unit in Britain, the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, the Christy group at the University of Alabama, and Remote Sensing Systems Inc in California) report that it cooled by about 0.7C in 2007. This is the fastest temperature change in the instrumental record and it puts us back where we were in 1930. If the temperature does not soon recover, we will have to conclude that global warming is over.”

Kenneth Tapping, a solar researcher and project director for Canada's National Research Council, is among those looking at the sun for evidence of an increase in sunspot activity.

Solar activity fluctuates in an 11-year cycle. But so far in this cycle, the sun has been disturbingly quiet. The lack of increased activity could signal the beginning of what is known as a Maunder Minimum, an event which occurs every couple of centuries and can last as long as a century.

Such an event occurred in the 17th century. The observation of sunspots showed extraordinarily low levels of magnetism on the sun, with little or no 11-year cycle. 

This solar hibernation corresponded with a period of bitter cold that began around 1650 and lasted, with intermittent spikes of warming, until 1715. Frigid winters and cold summers during that period led to massive crop failures, famine and death in Northern Europe. 

I tend to believe the Global Cooling theory but if it’s true, we need to fend off the Global Warming zealots who are planning to extort billions from us in the name of saving the planet from a non-existent threat, while the exact opposite is happening.