And finally, record levels of ice in the Antarctic sea have been reported, along with record cold in Minnesota, Texas, Florida, Mexico, Australia, Iran, Greece, South Africa, Greenland, Argentina, and Chili. "All four major global temperature tracking outlets (Hadley, NASA's, GISS, UAH, and RSS) have released updated figures showing, 'over the past year, global temperatures have dropped precipitously,'" Hadley scientists noted.

We're only talking about a single year, here. Temperatures at this time are doing what temperatures have always been doing - they go down. The Hadley report says, "scientists quoted in a Daily Tech article link this cooling to reduced solar activity they say is a much larger driver of climate change than man-made greenhouse gasses. The dramatic cooling seen in just 12 months time enhances that position."

Unfortunately, the latest cooling data, is not finding its way into the so-called mainstream media, balancing the doom and gloom that has been published over the past several years.

Scientists at the Hadley Center worry that if the cold doesn't slow soon, it would be more damaging than rising temperatures because cold is more damaging than heat. Note the scientists at the Hadley Center are not saying we're in for a cold spell, with temperatures dropping. This is only a single year, so we'll have to wait and see.

The Hadley Center does report that warming similar to that experienced during the Medieval Climatic Optimum would not a bad thing. Agriculture experienced record yields during that early time. Corresponding cooling events such as the "Little Ice Age," though were uniformly bad news. In other words, global cooling could be far more disastrous than global warming.

To be fair, the Scientists at the Hadley Center point out their data does not disprove carbon dioxide is acting to warm the planet, but, " it does demonstrate clearly that more powerful factors are now cooling it."

The institute reports the mean temperature is about 54 degrees, " and most of the crops and animals we depend on prefer closer to 70." Hopefully, this new data will slow politicians in their quest to write legislation that slap limitations on our society. There is a group of people out there, many on our college campuses, which find real scientific research "scary," and would like to see it halted.

According to accepted data, we have been in a modest "warming period," but this year there is a dramatic turn around. Global warming fanatics have been using world temperatures in their effort to get legislation to cut back on our lifestyles, without a sufficient amount of data to back them up. While it would not be a bad thing to cut carbon emissions, data produced by the Hadley Center show these emissions may not be as disastrous as the doom and gloom folks present.

What should be irritating to all of us is the lack of reporting on new temperature data by the mainstream press. They were filing tons of stories on global warming, but when information from reliable institutions shows something different, they just drop the issue, and went about looking for something else to cause panic.

While we must always give close scrutiny to changes in temperature movement both upward and downward, would it not be more prudent to wait for thorough research to take place before making declarations that the "sky is falling," as Al Gore and his Hollywood buddies did in the propaganda film, "Inconvenient Truth."

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