Every now and then, you can find a nugget of truth buried in the
hype about global warming. Discovery has printed such a nugget
in an article that asks why global warming predictions have not
come true: |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.” Oh, this current cooling trend does have a
cause, if the people at the Discovery Channel would only look in
the right place to find it: Vanishing Sun Spots A Prelude To
Global Cooling? International Climate Science Coalition February
9, 2008 2008 Ends Spotless And With 266 Spotless Days, The #2
Least Active Year Since 1900