A Convenient Truth, Global Cooling is here, "Its So Cold", says Al Gore!

Forget global warming: Welcome to the new Ice Age
Lorne Gunter, National Post Published: Monday, February 25, 2008
Snow cover over North America and much of Siberia, Mongolia and China is greater than at any time since 1966.
The U.S. National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) reported that many American cities and towns suffered record cold temperatures in January and early February. According to the NCDC, the average temperature in January "was -0.3 F cooler than the 1901-2000 (20th century) average."
China is surviving its most brutal winter in a century. Temperatures in the normally balmy south were so low for so long that some middle-sized cities went days and even weeks without electricity because once power lines had toppled it was too cold or too icy to repair them.
There have been so many snow and ice storms in Ontario and Quebec in the past two months that the real estate market has felt the pinch as home buyers have stayed home rather than venturing out looking for new houses.
In just the first two weeks of February, Toronto received 70 cm of snow, smashing the record of 66.6 cm for the entire month set back in the pre-SUV, pre-Kyoto, pre-carbon footprint days of 1950.
And remember the Arctic Sea ice? The ice we were told so hysterically last fall had melted to its "lowest levels on record? Never mind that those records only date back as far as 1972 and that there is anthropological and geological evidence of much greater melts in the past.
The ice is back.
Gilles Langis, a senior forecaster with the Canadian Ice Service in Ottawa, says the Arctic winter has been so severe the ice has not only recovered, it is actually 10 to 20 cm thicker in many places than at this time last year.
OK, so one winter does not a climate make. It would be premature to claim an Ice Age is looming just because we have had one of our most brutal winters in decades.
But if environmentalists and environment reporters can run around shrieking about the manmade destruction of the natural order every time a robin shows up on Georgian Bay two weeks early, then it is at least fair game to use this winter's weather stories to wonder whether the alarmist are being a tad premature.
And it's not just anecdotal evidence that is piling up against the climate-change dogma.
According to Robert Toggweiler of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory at Princeton University and Joellen Russell, assistant professor of biogeochemical dynamics at the University of Arizona -- two prominent climate modellers -- the computer models that show polar ice-melt cooling the oceans, stopping the circulation of warm equatorial water to northern latitudes and triggering another Ice Age (a la the movie The Day After Tomorrow) are all wrong.
"We missed what was right in front of our eyes," says Prof. Russell. It's not ice melt but rather wind circulation that drives ocean currents northward from the tropics. Climate models until now have not properly accounted for the wind's effects on ocean circulation, so researchers have compensated by over-emphasizing the role of manmade warming on polar ice melt.
But when Profs. Toggweiler and Russell rejigged their model to include the 40-year cycle of winds away from the equator (then back towards it again), the role of ocean currents bringing warm southern waters to the north was obvious in the current Arctic warming.
Last month, Oleg Sorokhtin, a fellow of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, shrugged off manmade climate change as "a drop in the bucket." Showing that solar activity has entered an inactive phase, Prof. Sorokhtin advised people to "stock up on fur coats."
He is not alone. Kenneth Tapping of our own National Research Council, who oversees a giant radio telescope focused on the sun, is convinced we are in for a long period of severely cold weather if sunspot activity does not pick up soon.
The last time the sun was this inactive, Earth suffered the Little Ice Age that lasted about five centuries and ended in 1850. Crops failed through killer frosts and drought. Famine, plague and war were widespread. Harbours froze, so did rivers, and trade ceased.
It's way too early to claim the same is about to happen again, but then it's way too early for the hysteria of the global warmers, too.

Republicans meet their Waterloo in 08

The Republican Party was once a force to be reckoned with, for years the Democrats ruled both houses with a substantial majority. Then came an ex-Hollywood actor turned politician from California, named Ronald Reagan. During his tenure, he led his “Reagan Revolution” and changed the political landscape for years to come. He followed the basic Republican beliefs of tax cuts for all, having a strong military and opposing abortion. He was considered one of the greatest Republican presidents of all time. Though after Reagan’s departure, the party still endured the presidency with George Bush Sr. and when they lost to Bill Clinton in 92. The Republicans came back with Newt Gingrich’s, “Contract with America” and took back the house with a large majority over the Democrats.
Jump to today and the Republican Party seemed to have lost its will and strength. With an unpopular war raging on in the Middle East and an unpopular president, the once great party is now a minority in both houses. It was during the 06 election that the Democrats took over the political landscape in Washington with there anti-war votes and anti- Bush supporters. Though, most of the blame should be put on the Republican Party as a whole. For one thing they weren’t really doing anything positive when they took over both houses in 04. Most of time, they were involved in the typical partisan bickering with the Democrats, which led to nothing getting done. Plus, another thorn sticking in the side of the party was the countless scandals. There was scandal after scandal plaguing the party, whether it was Jack Abramoff bribes, Mark Foley’s sexual messages towards young intern boys or more recently, Larry Graig’s toe tapping in the airport bathrooms. These and many other scandals have lost the trust of many voters across America.
Today, the Republicans are in dire straits, more than 28 members in the house are retiring and another 6 in the Senate are not running for reelection, leaving the Democrats able to pick up a larger majority in both houses. Now with John McCain being the likely choice for the Presidential Republican nominee, the Conservative wing of the party is planning on staying home with their votes this November. They see McCain as an R.I.N.O or Republican in Name Only, the Conservatives would rather see their party go down the drain than vote for a moderate with in their party.
Now with primaries in full swing, the only hope the Republicans have is that Hillary Clinton wins the Democrat nominee. The Clintons are still public enemy number one with the Republican Party and a Hillary victory would certainly bring a fiery reemergence within the right. Though a wrench has been thrown into the machine, with the profound surge in popularity of Barrack Obama, both the Clintons and the Republicans are sweating it out, hoping a change in their direction will bring back the good old days, when both the Republicans and the Clintons ruled.

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Tuesday will decide whether Republicans will Swift Boat McCain!

With tuesday around the corner, millions of potenial voters will decide who will be the front runner of the Republican party. With McCain leading Romney and Huckabee, many on the radio talk show circuit, including Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and others, have said that they will adbandon the nomination if McCain is their man. All week long, conservative radio icons have gone on a Swift Boat style rampage on McCains record. Some have even brought up the 2000 reports of McCains temper and military record, that GWB used to gain the nomination.
The Conservative wing of the republican party are acting like children, their numbers are dwindling in the House of Rep and in the Senate. There are 28 house Republicans either retiring or not seeking reelection, 6 senate Republicans are in the same boat. Now with tuesday around the corner, many would rather stay home and let the Democrats win in 08 if McCain wins the nomination. Well then stay home and cry in your pillows, because if the Dems win everything, including the White House. Don't come out crying saying it was someone esles fault, conseravtive talk radio will bring down the Republican party, so the likes of Limbaugh and others can keep their ratings.