Deroy Murdock says: "Chill Out on Climate Hysteria

Deroy Murdock states: Chill Out on Climate Hysteria [May 2^nd 2008] …

Australia, the land where sinks drain the other way, has alerted Americans that we see Earth’s climate upside down: We’re not warming. We’re cooling.
“Disconcerting as it may be to true believers in global warming, the average temperature on Earth has remained steady or slowly declined during the past decade, despite the continued increase in the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide, and now the global temperature is falling precipitously.” Dr. Phil Chapman wrote in The Australian on April 23. “All those urging action to curb global warming need to take off the blinkers and give some thought to what we should do if we are facing global cooling instead.”
Chapman neither can be caricatured as a greedy oil-company lobbyist nor dismissed as a flat-Earther. He was a Massachusetts Institute of Technology staff physicist, NASA’s first Australian-born astronaut, and Apollo 14s Mission Scientist.
Chapman believes reduced sunspot activity is curbing temperatures. As he points out: “The reason this matters is that there is a close correlation between variations on the sunspot cycles and Earth’s climate.”
Anecdotally, last winter brought record cold to Florida, Mexico, and Greece, and rare snow to Jerusalem, Damascus, and Baghdad. China endured a brutal ice and snow. Dr. Oleg Sorochtin of the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Oceanology advised: “Stock up on fur coats and felt boots!”
NASA satellites found that last winter’s Arctic Sea ice covered 2 million square kilometers (772,204 square miles) more than the last three years’ average. It was also 10 to 20 centimeters (4 to 8 inches) thicker than in 2007. The ice between Canada and southwest Greenland also spread dramatically. “We have to go back 15 years to find ice expansion so far south,” Denmark’s Meteorological Institute stated.
“Snows Return to Mount Kilimanjaro,” cheered a January 21 International Herald Tribune headline, burying one of the climate alarmists’ favorite warming anecdotes.
While neither these isolated facts nor one year’s statistics confirm global cooling, a decade of date contradict the “melting planet” rhetoric that heats Capitol Hill and America’s newsrooms.

In a New York Times article, Greenhouse Gas Must Be Capped, McCain Asserts, May 13^th 2008 …

Senator John McCain sought to distance himself from President Bush on Monday as he called for a mandatory limit on greenhouse gas emissions in the United States to combat climate change.
Mr. McCain, in a speech at a wind power company, also pledged to work with the European Union to diplomatically engage China and India, two of the world’s biggest polluters, if they refuse to participate in an international agreement to slow global warming. …
“I will not shirk the mantle of leadership that the United States bears,” Mr. McCain said pointedly. “I will not permit eight long years to pass without serious action on serious challenges.”

Maybe President Bush’s administration chose to ignore the climate change rhetoric because it was full of data errors, political agenda, and sponsored by political and private people who would gain economically if global warming was taken seriously. Senator McCain demonstrated that he doesn’t know much about the subject as well as the implication that he does not keep up with the current news information that the global warming theory is a hoax.