Is Global Warming Hysteria Fading? »

As I write this, I’m inspired by an unusual rock that sits on the desk beside my computer. It’s unusual in two ways. One, it looks like a chunk of wood, with clear layers formed by tree rings, and in fact it’s from a petrified tropical tree. Two, the tree grew near the south pole millions of years ago, when the whole world, including the polar regions, was tropical. I got it when I was with the U.S. antarctic expedition.

I once showed it to a liberal friend, a true believer in the doctrine that the earth is warming now only because of society’s—particularly America’s—profligacy and that we have to adopt the entire left-wing agenda in order to set things right. He was astounded—he hadn’t known that the earth naturally undergoes continuous cycles of warming and cooling.

It’s ignorance like this that allowed the man-made global warming hoax to catch on with so many people over the last several years

AccuWeather’s Bastardi debunks global warming causing cold weather myth, warns of severe 2011 drought

“Well, I’ve been saying what I believe is going on is this is the big debate between the natural cycles and the forces of AGW [anthropogenic global warming] – by the way, these folks claiming that global warming is causing severe cold is like the kid on the playground who doesn’t get his way and takes his ball home. The fact of the matter is the forecast that was made by this forecaster three years ago that we we’re going to start seeing these things because of this and it opens up the big debate – are the natural cycles taking over and are we going to see cooling over the next 20 to 30 years? You see, we started measuring temperatures with satellite at the end of the last cold cycle in the Pacific. We had nothing but warm in the Pacific and warm in the Atlantic. What’s going to happen to the temperatures if the oceans are warm? Now that they’re cooling let’s see what’s going to happens in the next 20 to 30 years.”

He said that the unseasonably cold winter is something that could be predicted and told viewers not to just blame global warming.