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Australia Unseasonably Cool Summer

Australia is suffering severe changes in weather thanks to La Nina, countering the claims that the Earth is undergoing severe global climate warming. This is at the same time that the Northern hemisphere has endured one of the coldest and snowiest winters in several decades, with many places experiencing cooling such as has not been seen since the end of the Little Ice Age.

From Bloomberg.com:

While the La Nina weather pattern is delivering rain to farmers after the worst drought in a century, it’s cutting profits for cafe owners, travel agents and insurers. Insurance Australia Group Ltd., the nation’s largest home insurer, last week posted a sixth straight profit decline after hail storms cost it A$105 million ($97 million). The yearly ‘Symphony in the Park,’ which usually attracts 80,000 people, had 700 this year as the orchestra played behind a tarpaulin during a downpour.

Rain levels are reported as being 50% greater than previous years, relieving the need for water restrictions in Australia. While all of this rain, and the milder temperatures has been good for farmers, the impact on business reliant on tourism has been disastrous. Not to mention the damage caused by all of those hail storms. A $100 million in insurance claims is a lot to swallow in one chunk. But it happens, and could have been much worse.

No day topped 31 degrees celsius (88 degrees fahrenheit) for the first time since 1956. Average daily sunshine totaled 6.7 hours, an hour less than normal and the lowest since 1991-92. The average maximum temperature was 25.2, the coolest since 1996-97.

The question now is this a sing of things to come? With sunspot activity at its lowest point in two decades, what will the next year be like? What about all of the CO2 that Al Gore and the lefties claim is driving global warming? What happened there? You would think that, with all of the CO2 emissions, that the opposite would be true.

Just last week the National Post covered the potential that we may be heading toward another Ice Age, and IBD argues that we are headed towards another Maunder Minimum. Both agree that we may well be heading toward a cooler climate for the next few years, or even the next few decades.

What I really like is how the global warming alarmists claim that one years worth of data is not sufficient to establish a trend, but 27 years is. Yet they continue to ignore trends mapped out over thousands of years using scientific and historical data. We have about 5000 years of historical records to draw upon, and scientists have ways of identifying climate trends dating over hundreds of thousands of years. How is 27 years of data considered more relevant than the most recent year or the last 5000 years?

The Earth’s climate is dynamic, not static. For the Al Gore and the Lefties (sounds like a rock and roll band) can claim that they know what the Earth’s ideal climate should be is idiotic to say the least, and contrary to reality.

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