A “leading scientist”, named Professor Mojib Latif, who is a climate modeler, is claiming that the Earth has started on a 30 year “mini-Ice Age” cooling cycle, but all that will reverse at the end of the 30 years and global warming will resume as usual.
In all the conflab over global warming and climate change, pros and cons, not once have I ever heard this guys name before. I think he’s either after his fifteen minutes of fame or a grant. Every winter we have people claiming that we’re going back into a cooling trend and every summer they go silent.
All the worlds best climatologists have been studying data for years from thousands of instruments located in our oceans, remote outposts, gathered from ships at sea and airports around the world, from satellites and colleges and everywhere possible, and have concluded that the Earth is warming.
It’s natural that as the climate changes, it oscillates, with colder winters and hotter summers. Weather is snow, rain, hot days, tornadoes. Climate is weather over a period of years. So if we have a really cold winter, like this one, we will likely have a very warm summer to offset it, with the result that the overall temperature of the Earth after a whole year will be a little warmer than the year before.
The emitters of greenhouse gasses are desparate to convince people that the ice caps really aren’t melting, and if they are, it’s not because of them. The Cap and Tax crowd is desparate to convince everyone that the ice really is melting and it’s all the emitters fault, so they can tax the living hell out of them and drive up energy costs for all of us and create massive inflation that will bring down the global economy.
The ice caps are melting. That’s a fact for anyone to see. All they have to do is look. Very likely, the cause is both a natural Earth/Sun cycle AND greenhouse gas emission. The thing is, nothing we do is going to stop it or even slow it down a tad. What we need to spend our time on is preparing for a changed world, not trying to heap blame on each other while making huge corporate profits or massive tax ripoffs.