Despite the ramblings of alarmists, scientists who might just know better keep telling us there’s something else going on here. For some time, solar activity has been looked at as the real cause behind climate change, and now we learn cyclical wind patterns weren’t even computed into the arctic models… so are carbon credits are this decade’s version of dot-com stocks?

Forget global warming: Welcome to the new Ice Age

In just the first two weeks of February, Toronto received 70 cm of snow, smashing the record of 66.6 cm for the entire month set back in the pre-SUV, pre-Kyoto, pre-carbon footprint days of 1950.

And 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.

I may soon be glad I am living in a southern state…

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.

Maybe Al Gore will roll some of his ill-gotten gains into extreme cold weather gear for the poor? Yeah, bet on that…

And then there’s this:

Temperature Monitors Report Widescale Global Cooling

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.

Let’s hope those factors stop fast. Cold is more damaging than heat. The mean temperature of the planet is about 54 degrees. Humans — and most of the crops and animals we depend on — prefer a temperature closer to 70.

Historically, the warm periods such as the Medieval Climate Optimum were beneficial for civilization. Corresponding cooling events such as the Little Ice Age, though, were uniformly bad news.

This would be hilarious, if the end result either way wasn’t so devastating.

IBDeditorials.com: Editorials, Political Cartoons, and Polls from Investor’s Business Daily — The Sun Also Sets

Back in 1991, before Al Gore first shouted that the Earth was in the balance, the Danish Meteorological Institute released a study using data that went back centuries that showed that global temperatures closely tracked solar cycles. To many, those data were convincing. Now, Canadian scientists are seeking additional funding for more and better “eyes” with which to observe our sun, which has a bigger impact on Earth’s climate than all the tailpipes and smokestacks on our planet combined. And they’re worried about global cooling, not warming.

So the logical answer – that the sun has cycles, and those cycles affect earth’s climate – may be forced back onto center stage. Will Al Gore apologize and give back the billions his globally executed fraud continues to steal from well-intentioned (albeit utterly gullible) people?

I can’t help but remember the news broadcasting fears of “global cooling” in the 70’s, and I’ve read plenty about the often forgotten “little ice age” of the 1700’s. Will a year-round frozen Hudson River be enough to wake up the global warming fanatics, or will they find a way to blame FROZEN RIVERS on global warming? I can’t wait. Maybe someday we’ll get a handle on the REAL climate, but as of right now, the best scientists can do is GUESS.

And morons who want to dictate policy based on GUESSES (especially ones biased by that entire segment of our population lost to the 60’s) don’t need to be making important decisions. Generation X, your LSD induced fantasies aren’t where we’ll find the answers. I know it seemed real, but the wind and trees weren’t really whispering in your ear.

Thanks to the American Thinker for linking that article.