A setback for the global warming alarmists

Remember how Al Gore and his minions went around scaring everyone about global warming? Then, when that didn't pan out so well, the new term became climate change (nice and vague since climate changes all the time). Well, there's been another problem for the sky-is-falling crowd. this time it's the U. N. and its Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which is on the record of saying that it is 95% sure that human activity — the burning of fossil fuel for energy — is causing our planet to warm. But what will they say now with a coming global cooling? And one is coming. At least that's what the IPCC itself reportedly is saying.

The London Telegraph wrote Sunday that a leaked IPCC report "has led some scientists to claim that the world is heading for a period of cooling that will not end until the middle of this century." Wow.

The newspaper has noted, "There has been a 60% increase in the amount of ocean covered with ice compared to this time last year, the equivalent of almost a million square miles." But it wasn't that long ago that we were told an iceless Arctic was coming. We were also told to watch for a terrible increase in global-warming-caused disastrous storms. Oops--that didn't happen either.

Here's the key: Earth has not warmed in at least 16 years, maybe more. Data from Britain's Met Office, that nation's arbiter of all things climate, shows global temperatures have been flat since the late 1990s.

So, what's ahead for the alarmists? Their prestige (and, more importantly, their money) depends on further hysterical utterances to make governments cough up more to them--money and power. So this is not over--more lies ahead (pun intended).