Monday, January 11, 2010

The Cold Winter

The temperature has been a top story all year. Ok, it's only January 10th but that's still a long time for weather to dominate the news. This is not a local story, either. The entire Norther Hemisphere is in a cold wave the like of which has not been seen since the 1970s. The obvious question is where that leaves global warming?

On one hand, it should be pointed out that this is a weather event. Weather happens and you cannot draw too many conclusions from it. This has not stopped warming alarmists from pointing to events as evidence of global warming. A number of people claimed that Australia's recent wildfires were caused by global warming.

On the other hand, events like this aren't supposed to happen any more. Global warming was supposed to show up first in milder winters. According to the experts, the world has never been as warm as it is now. The words "catastrophic warming" have been use numerous times. We are counting down the months left to act before we reach a tipping point an the world has warmed so much that all life is doomed. You would think that with all that warming going on we wouldn't be setting record cold winters.

I guess that the world has not warmed all that much after all.

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