So NOW Can We Stop Panicking About “Global Warming?”

I don’t pretend to be a scientist, and I don’t pretend to know more about the world’s climate than people who study it for a living.  But I can at least ask the obvious question:

If the globe is warming, why isn’t it—you know—getting warmer? For years now I’ve been reporting findings that the earth’s temperature stopped rising in 1997. Now here we are with another major study—this time from warmist-friendly folks in the British government weather bureaucracy and…guess what?

The supposed ‘consensus’ on man-made global warming is facing an inconvenient challenge after the release of new temperature data showing the planet has not warmed for the past 15 years….Based on readings from more than 30,000 measuring stations, the data was issued last week without fanfare by the Met Office and the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit. It confirms that the rising trend in world temperatures ended in 1997.

Fifteen years of increasing CO2, greenhouse gas emissions, etc. and not a bit of warming.  Now, if global warming kooks and enviro-nuts weren’t, well, kooks and nuts, this would be good news. NOT having the planet burn up or Manhattan under 20 feet of water is a good thing…right?

Alas, not for these angry activists. Their global warmism gives their lives meaning, purpose. They’d rather live on an endangered planet fighting against Big Oil than be mere citizens on a safe and happy Earth.

So I suppose the “good” news is that, while we’re not going to roast, we might freeze to death.

The figures suggest that we could even be heading for a mini ice age to rival the 70-year temperature drop that saw frost fairs held on the Thames in the 17th Century…

According to a paper issued last week by the Met Office, there is a  92 per cent chance that both Cycle 25 and those taking place in the following decades will be as weak as, or weaker than, the ‘Dalton minimum’ of 1790 to 1830. In this period, named after the meteorologist John Dalton, average temperatures in parts of Europe fell by 2C.

However, it is also possible that the new solar energy slump could be as deep as the ‘Maunder minimum’ (after astronomer Edward Maunder), between 1645 and 1715 in the coldest part of the ‘Little Ice Age’ when, as well as the Thames frost fairs, the canals of Holland froze solid.

So, when we’re inviting polar bears to skate across the Delaware River—THEN will the global warming panic end?

Probably not.