Let’s take a little trip back in time… I recognize many of my readers were not even alive back then, but… let’s try.
[1]Think back to the election… the general, back 1989…when Bush41 was running against Mike Dukakas. Remember the polling data which until two weeks or a little less before the election, were swearing that Ol “Tanker Mike” was gonna run away with the thing? I said at the time on the old GT network where I was holding court at the time, that the numbers were way off, and some rapid changes were going to need to be made lest the reality show up and make the pollsters… and the news orgs commissioning them… out to be liars. Lo, and behold, within the last week and a half the fastest polling swing ever, toward Bush. On election day, Bush ran away with it all, in even larger fashion than the pollsters had a chance to catch up to by then. The polling people couldn’t explain it, though the News Orgs liked to blame the Dukakis Tank photo.
So, jump ahead just a bit… say, 19 years. To, well, to Today in fact. Glenn [2] passes along this link from DailyTech.com [2] which opens with:
Twelve-month long drop in world temperatures wipes out a century of warming
Over the past year, anecdotal evidence for a cooling planet has exploded. China has its coldest winter in 100 years. Baghdad sees its first snow [3] in all recorded history. North America has the most snowcover in 50 years [4], with places like Wisconsin the highest since record-keeping began. Record levels of Antarctic sea ice, record cold in Minnesota [5], Texas, Florida, Mexico, Australia [6], Iran, Greece [7], South Africa, Greenland, Argentina, Chile — the list goes on and on.
No more than anecdotal evidence, to be sure. But now, that evidence has been supplanted by hard scientific fact. All four major global temperature tracking outlets (Hadley, NASA’s GISS, UAH, RSS) have released updated data. All show that over the past year, global temperatures have dropped precipitously.
In fact, what we see now, has wiped out the warming trend, supposedly caused by Man.
Of course right away, one of the commenters to that site suggests the argument is no longer about “Global Warming” but rather, now, it’s about “Climate Change”. Apparently the buzzword got changed to meet the arguments about how the Enviro-whackos had originally giving us dire warnings about “Global Cooling” back in the 70’s. Again, and as with Dukakis back in the 80’s, the myth gets changed so as to meet the reality of the situation without risking the myth outright, and thereby whatever degree of leftist control that can be salvaged from the situation. Indeed, that buzz phrase was apparently changed within the last year. But once again, not quite fast enough to meet the reality… people still remember calling it “Global Warming”, and so are a little curious about how that meshes with current events.
McQ notes the same link [8], by way of Keith at A Second Hand Conjecture : [9]
Not only do we have all the sea ice back, we have more than we once had. Record low temps. Record snowcover. And record global temperature drops.
The reason? Well apparently, like many of us have been saying all along, that big old yellow fiery thing that hangs in the sky every day has a big effect on our world’s temperature:
Scientists quoted in a past DailyTech article link the cooling to reduced solar activity which they claim is a much larger driver of climate change than man-made greenhouse gases. The dramatic cooling seen in just 12 months time seems to bear that out. While the data doesn’t itself disprove that carbon dioxide is acting to warm the planet, it does demonstrate clearly that more powerful factors are now cooling it.
Or as many of us have been saying, it strains credulity to believe that man’s minuscule contribution of a single gas is somehow responsible for the warming of the entire globe.
Well, yeah… but see, without that element, the left wouldn’t be able to dominate our every move.
Think about it; Our energy policy… as drven by global warming fears, worries about individuals and compnaies being able to make a buck, and relentless screaming about ‘the environment’ have left us with an unworkable energy and environmental; policy which has us paying $3.50/gal for gasoline, and so on.
With this in mind, you’d think the logical way to proceed would be to throw off the draconian energy policy we’ve been suffering with. But wait; Why do THAT, when we can claim that our burning Fossil Fuels is what’s causing “Global Cooling?” And the solution, of course, will be exactly the same prescriptions once leveled to combat ‘Global Warming”.
And you watch… within four years, people… that’s exactly what we will see.