In the continuing story on how the world in not rising in temperature and yet we continue to base energy and other policies on the idea that mankind is destroying the world I have found the following story in the Investors Business Daily.

"When the United Nations World Meteorological Organization recently reported that global temperatures had not risen since 1998, the explanation given by WMO Secretary-General Michel Jarraud was that the cool spell was the effect of the Pacific Ocean's La Nina current, "part of what we call 'variability.' "

Well, oops, the Earth will do it again. According to a report by German researchers published in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature, shifting Atlantic Ocean currents will cool parts of North America and Europe over the next decade as well.

Noel Keenlyside of the Leibnitz Institute of Marine Science at Germany's Kiel University says "in the short term, you can see changes in the global mean temperature that you might not expect given the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change."

The key to the Kiel team's prediction is the natural cycle of ocean currents called the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, or AMO for those who aren't oceanographers or don't play Scrabble. The AMO is closely related to the warm currents that bring heat from the tropics to the coasts of Europe and North America. The cycle is not well understood, but is believed to repeat every 60 to 70 years.

According to the greenies, the Earth is supposed to warm continuously and disastrously without taking any rest breaks. Yet after taking actual data from the Labrador Sea where the Gulf Stream gives up its warmth before sinking and returning southward and projecting forward, the Kiel team says the Atlantic currents will keep rising temperatures in check around the world, much as the warming and cooling associated with El Nino and La Nina in the Pacific affect global temperatures.

This along with so many stories of record ice pack in the south region, record snow around the world, no temperature increase since 1998, and so many other stories showing the shame of global warming. Yet we are see the government pushing the idea that we must change our habits to save the world by forcing our kids to watch Al Gore’s lying movie and changing our light bulbs. It is time to face up to the fact that mankind cannot effect global warming and that the cooling and heating are just natural events. I will also bet this volcano that exploded will effect even more cooling the temps as it has put forth more pollution in one event then we will do in our lifetime.

Bruce Caldwell
Signal Mountain
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