The Lesson Learned Here...

Is never trust a liberal again. [Content warning on the right sidebar] Of course the western world has had plenty of previous opportunities to learn this lesson, but has instead chosen on countless occasions to repeat history.

How long do you suppose it will take before the self same lib environmentalists behind AGW attempt to take the helm of the Good Ship Global Cooling? I give it less than six months. When the press is referring to those in the global cooling camp as "some of the world’s most eminent climate scientists," the jig is pretty much up.

To say nothing of these little bits of trivia, which are apparently no longer on the media's "suppress list":

winters like this one will become much more likely. Summers will also probably be cooler, and all this may well last two decades or longer.

Prof Anastasios Tsonis, head of the University of Wisconsin Atmospheric Sciences Group, has recently shown that these [Multi-Decadal Oscillations in weather patterns] move together in a synchronised way across the globe, abruptly flipping the world’s climate from a ‘warm mode’ to a ‘cold mode’ and back again in 20 to 30-year cycles

--Gee, might that explain why libs were flipping out about global cooling a few decades back?

‘I do not believe in catastrophe theories [said Professor Tsongis]. Man-made warming is balanced by the natural cycles, and I do not trust the computer models which state that if CO2 reaches a particular level then temperatures and sea levels will rise by a given amount.

'These models cannot be trusted to predict the weather for a week, yet they are running them to give readings for 100 years.’

Uh oh. The Daily Mail is treating one of these kooky deniers as a legitimate scientist and allowing him to challenge the conventional wisdom. Better knock that off or the boys at the CRU may cancel their subscriptions.

And the doozy, not because it's anything new but because it's actually in print:

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.

This article is a prime example of the way that AGW is going to die the death of a thousand cuts. No one is going to run a story attacking the CRU or Darwin scientists outright; rather the press is just going to stop ignoring the climatologists and other scientists who haven't drunk the kool-aid. Global Warming will take its rightful place on the shelf along with previous muchadoaboutnothings like Y2K and the Bird Flu pandemic, and will be quickly forgotten.

Then, in 20 years or so, when nobody remembers any of this crap and the next MDO prompts a warming trend, we'll get to experience the fun and games all over again. Be prepared to talk your kids and grandkids down off the ledge.