At least the issue is called "climate change" now. With an ambiguous name for the thing evil polluters are doing to the earth, they can be blamed for any sudden or long-term change in weather patterns. It's a much more appropriate umbrella concept for rationalizing regulation.

After putting out my campfire the other day by stomping on it, I suddenly realized I had a huge carbon footprint. I really should be jailed.

I can't handle the guilt!

Seriously though, big bucks (and jobs) are being made in private sector recycling. It "warms" my heart.

Sooner or later, a few geniuses will put their heads together and build a vehicle that can bore through landfills, chop everything up, sort it, and store raw materials while leaving the rock, soil & organic material behind - huge profits!

If it is in fact headed for a mini ice age then we had best end the anti-nuclear hysteria and start building modern utra-safe, ultra-clean nuclear power plants like crazy.

El crapo I was so rooting for Global Warming. I love the heat but hate the cold of Winters and now you tell I need to buy more thermal underware. Note to self: send swim trunks back in trade for Long-Johns!

Ha, Madan, you are sooooo right! I've said similar in the past.

1975: Global cooling and it's all your fault! NYC will be under 200 feet of ice by 2000, so we have to restrict your rights and tax you more to combat it!

1995: Global warming and it's all your fault! When the ice caps melt NYC will be under 200 feet of water by 2015, so we have to restrict your rights and tax you more to combat it!

2015: Climate change and it's all your fault! We don't know what it's going to do but we have to restrict your rights and tax you more to combat it, whatever may happen!

I've collected some graphs and cartoons at http://www.plusaf.com/global-warming/... ...

Look at the first two graphs, print them out nice and large, then lay a plastic triangle on 'em with one edge vertical.

If you look not even carefully, you'll quickly see where most of the curves 'match each other' in such a way as to show pretty clear periodicity and correlation, if not linkage between 'em!

What looks like an approaching/beginning Solar Minimum could well lead to a mini-Ice-Age that would belie any claims of Global Warmites.

We'll see, but I still like the more scientific approaches... the ones that look at raw data without fudging.

Whatever the "adjustments" made by warmists to the temperature records, the reality is that is getting colder every year...

the may 1974 issue of fortune magazine has and article 17 pages long about the next ice age coming soon.(the only way to read the article is to get a copy of the magazine it is not on the internet unfortunately) then in 1976 Lowell Ponte write "the cooling; has the next ice age already begun?" still available, and then there is "dark winter how the sun is causing a 30 year cooling spell" by john casey. so to answer nelly's question the answer is YES.

Could you provide some links to this information? I've long suspected that Southern Hemisphere winters can provide a clue as to what those in the Northern Hemisphere will be.

You'll see what a terrible winter they are having int he Southern Hemisphere, and how our Midwest is suffering terrible planting problems this summer. I do not own: iceagenow.com - it's just a remarkably responsible blog on the upcoming REAL climate change - that we are not preparing for. Get ready, and it won't be any 10 to 20 years. It's here now.

"Settled science" is an oxymoron. Anytime someone tells you that you cannot present evidence to the contrary, they are running a scam.

Jan

I love your conservative and rational approach. This is exactly what the world will do.

Cash for Hybrids...giggle.

Jan

Hmmm.... I've been expecting an ice age since around, say, the time the Warming Scam began--the late '80s.

My son's science grad student and post-doc friends told me I couldn't argue with the science of global warming, i.e., that it was proven, unassailable fact.
I told them I was not arguing the rightness of the science, I was concerned with human nature and the fact that various "scientists", in their quests for government funding, had cooked data to "prove" their hypotheses supporting government intervention. "What cooked data?" was their response.
It isn't what the media tells you that reveals their bias, it's what they choose to not tell you.

It's very suspicious that a new ice age is occurring just as scientists are preparing to resurrect the wooly mammoth.

Coincidence? I don't think so! :)

Take up a collection and let's buy a congressman. Buy several, they are cheaper by the dozen. After all, they are the ones who institutionalized the motto "You can fool some of the people some of the time, and taht is usually good enough."

You are making the mistake of believing they actually care about solving whatever problem is the current justification for expanding government power. Back in the seventies when they thought an ice age was coming, the proposed solutions were pretty much the same as their current solutions to global warming.

Expanding government power: it's good for what ails ya!

Looks as if Algore is out. Who will come along now to make a fortune of new revelations?

We must act, there’s not a moment to lose!
Replace solar panels with lunar panels.
“Cash for Hybrids”.
Subsidize coal, outlaw wind farms.
Overcome the global cooling “deniers”.
Write your congressman, only the government can save us! :)

Maybe double or triple that by today's standards--and I hope that's not conservatively speaking.

http://www.answers.com/Q/How_Many_Bab...

Then we may consider them ruined!

Gore and his cronies have invested all their money, and their reputations too, on the belief that eco-catastrophe is coming. They stand to be ruined if we stop believing them.

Such is why weasel Marxist people-controllers renamed "global warming" as "climate change.""
The lie is and always will be "man-made" regardless.

http://tribune.com.pk/story/919436/mi...

Actually, we could start producing our food locally and indoors, harden our grid against EMP's and CME's due to our weakened magnetic shielding and believe it or not...release more carbon in our troposphere. Carbon is not only necessary for life, it is an electrical dispersant; a sufficient level would limit the damage done by severe electrical disturbances...and no, the temperature would Not go up. Too bad. Maybe if we position politicians in the right place on earth, their hot air would warm us up a bit...LMAO

It's hard to believe they have doubled down!
Gore was never smart, failed at everything he ever tried, except usurp other peoples money. He is the poster child for progressive speak; 180° opposite from the truth...