The bitter winter afflicting much of the Northern Hemisphere is only the start of a global trend towards cooler weather that is likely to last for 20 or 30 years, say some of the world’s most eminent climate scientists.

Their predictions – based on an analysis of natural cycles in water temperatures in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans – challenge some of the global warming orthodoxy’s most deeply cherished beliefs, such as the claim that the North Pole will be free of ice in summer by 2013.

According to the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre in Colorado, Arctic summer sea ice has increased by 409,000 square miles, or 26 per cent, since 2007 – and even the most committed global warming activists do not dispute this.

The scientists’ predictions also undermine the standard climate computer models, which assert that the warming of the Earth since 1900 has been driven solely by man-made greenhouse gas emissions and will continue as long as carbon dioxide levels rise.

Fundamentally, this is the basis for the conclusion:

They say that their research shows that much of the warming was caused by oceanic cycles when they were in a ‘warm mode’ as opposed to the present ‘cold mode’.

This challenge to the widespread view that the planet is on the brink of an irreversible catastrophe is all the greater because the scientists could never be described as global warming ‘deniers’ or sceptics.

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The problem, of course, is that Al Gore and other policitians continue to assert that the "science is settled" and that "the world is facing imminent disaster without drastic cuts in CO2".  The more recent analysis referred to above suggests that fears of a worldwide catastrophy are unfounded and that draconian measures, including complete control of the means of production, may be motivated by something other than science.  

It won’t be, but this should be good news to the climate hysterics: They won’t die of global warming. – Second Hand Smoke

“There are so many other problems besides whether we’re going to warm a degree – I’m personally more worried about cooling a degree,” Bastardi said. “For instance, suppose it’s warmed up a degree or a degree and a half over the last century. Is this all there is? In other words, what if it turns around and gets colder a degree or degree and a half, we are in a lot of trouble the other way. So, I think, sort of what Deidra [Imus] says, there are far more pressing problems than whether a trace element essential for the maintenance of life on the planet is going to cause us to warm a little bit.”

Bastardi explained to the Business & Media Institute back in January 2009 that the Russians had been predicting global cooling and he said he believed the Russians view their vast natural gas reserves to be a tactical weapon, demonstrated by their August 2008 invasion into Georgia. In the long run, he warned a mini-Ice Age is coming by the year 2030.

“And I personally don’t believe it’s doing it. I also think we’re going to get our answer in the next 20 or 30 years because if you change the ocean cycles, and we’re doing that now, this happens every 20 or 30 years, the climate of the country was very bad in the 30s, 40s and 50s. We have been in a similar climatic pattern now. If you change it back, which is going to happen, the sun spot cycle, if we don’t start revving things up there, the Russians have been saying since the early 90s look out we’re going into low sun spot activity. Some of them believe they’ll be a mini-Ice Age by 2030 and you increase the volcanism, I tell you what, it’s ice not fire you’re going to be worried about down the road.”

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