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Roger L. Simon » Global Cooling on Memorial Day

It seems as if Time and Newsweek were right back in the seventies. Global cooling is here. At least for this Memorial Day.

Somewhere Al Gore is gnashing his teeth, while concocting another speech to tell us that cooling actually means warming or some such palaver. Up is down. Good is bad. He’s beginning to sound like a cross between Napoleon in Orwell’s Animal Farm and the Mad Hatter.

Actually, Al has done us a favor by making it clear once again that science is not for amateurs and that when someone says something’s “settled,” that means it more than likely isn’t. They are trying to put one over on us and probably on themselves as well. After all, it’s profitable.

- Bishop Hill blog - Met insignificance 

In essence then, the temperature data looks more like a line wiggling up and down at random than one that has an impetus towards higher temperatures. That being the case, the rises in temperature over the last two centuries and over the last decades of the twentieth century, look like nothing untoward. The global warming signal has not been detected in the temperature records.

Cold snap to bring snow and sleet | New Zealand

Snow and strong winds are forecast to buffet the lower South Island this week.

Metservice issued a severe weather advisory yesterday warning residents of up to 20cm of snow falling to near sea level today.