Say Anything Blog

As I’ve said many times in the past, facts are such inconvenient darn things.

Al Gore and his Gorean eco-warriors have been running around like peyote tranced snake oil selling shamans, shaking their beads and rattles in our faces and reading their chicken bones, telling us that oh, my heavens, we’re all gonna DIE. The earth will turn into a hot, humid swamp any minute now. It’s all our fault, too. And if you don’t believe it, well, we’ll just MAKE you believe it.

We’ll tell you what light bulbs to use, what cars to drive, what food to eat and we’ll even control the thermostats in your homes. If you live in California, that is. We’ll get to the rest of you later.

Now, however, some seriously inconvenient truth - for the Global Warming Tribal Elders and their minions, at least - appears to be intruding on their modern day version of an intellectual Inquisition: It seem that the world has actually cooled, and cooled substantially lately:

Over the past year, anecdotal evidence for a cooling planet has exploded. China has its coldest winter in 100 years. Baghdad sees its first snow in all recorded history. North America has the most snowcover in 50 years, with places like Wisconsin the highest since record-keeping began. Record levels of Antarctic sea ice, record cold in Minnesota, Texas, Florida, Mexico, Australia, Iran, Greece, South Africa, Greenland, Argentina, Chile—the list goes on and on.

No more than anecdotal evidence, to be sure. But now, that evidence has been supplanted by hard scientific fact. All four major global temperature tracking outlets (Hadley, NASA’s GISS, UAH, RSS) have released updated data. All show that over the past year, global temperatures have dropped precipitously.

Oooh, all you Al Gore tribesmen…...bad juju. You’ve created an entire culture around your predictions that the world is warming up fast and furious and that we’re responsible for it and you’ve had quite a tribe dancing to your tune.  It’s not. Get your chicken blood ready to cast at the sun because the sun, in fact, is far more likely the culprit behind any major climate change than we are.

And no matter what magic potion you come up with nothing will change that. Well, maybe swinging a dead cat three times around your head while chanting, “I hate Bush,” will work. Worth a shot.

Sorry, but the sun pretty much does as it pleases and right now it’s in one of its lowest periods of activity in centuries. And - guess what? - things have cooled down. And when it perks up again - another guess what? - things will most probably warm up.

Do we contribute to the pollution of the planet? Sure. Any imbecile can see that. Do we need to tighten up on how we approach the care our environment? Definitely. But do we need the Goreans telling us how we should live every single aspect of our lives? Definitely not.

If I were the Nobel Prize committee I’d be feeling just a little silly right now. They should start thinking about getting that money back because it looks like they’ve got some egg on their collective faces.

In the meantime, keep a close eye on your cat.