COLD ENOUGH FOR YOU? - AT 8:15 A.M. ET:  Reader Joseph J. Gallick alerts us to this, from the Discovery Channel, reporting still one more authoritative challenge to the "consensus" on global warming:

...according to a new study, global warming may have hit a speed bump and could go into hiding for decades.

Earth's climate continues to confound scientists. Following a 30-year trend of warming, global temperatures have flatlined since 2001 despite rising greenhouse gas concentrations, and a heat surplus that should have cranked up the planetary thermostat.

"This is nothing like anything we've seen since 1950," Kyle Swanson of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee said. "Cooling events since then had firm causes, like eruptions or large-magnitude La Ninas. This current cooling doesn't have one."

COMMENT:  The story does go on to quote scientists who say that warming will return aggressively, but one does tire of the constant contradictions and revisions in global-warming "science."  We're being asked to change our economy radically, spend trillions to defeat warming - funds that could be spent on health and education - and yet it seems that each week there's a new theory or observation.  The hustlers, like Al Gore, don't want to hear any dissent.  We who pay the bills, however, should listen carefully. 

March 6, 2009