An article published by the BBC has shocked both sides in the global-warming debate because it quotes scientific research that disproves the claims of climate-change fearmongers.

In "What Happened to Global Warming?" the author, Paul Hudson, raised eyebrows by admitting that the Earth has been cooling since 1998. But don't be fooled by his white flag. Hudson gives less-than-equal coverage to skeptics and ends with quotes from global-warming proponents that seem to undermine the opposition.

He opens by explaining that global temperatures have steadily decreased over the past decade, despite rising levels of man-made carbon dioxide and climate models that predict the Earth will soon reach its boiling point. The warming trend in the last half of the 20th century seems to have ended in 1998, which comes as no surprise to climate-change critics since they attribute natural warming and cooling patterns to solar activity and ocean cycles.

Hudson reports that Piers Corbyn, a solar scientist with the forecasting company, WeatherAction, has evidence that activity of the sun is almost entirely responsible for fluctuations in global temperatures. However, both the Royal Society and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) say their research indicates average surface temperature over the last 20 to 40 years has little to do with solar activity (though the sun accounts for 98 percent of the Earth’s heat).

Research conducted by scientists at Western Washington University (WWU) also relates the Earth’s temperature to ocean cycles. Much of the planet's heat is stored in oceans which tend to oscillate from warm to cool in 30-year cycles. The latest oceanic cycles coincide with global surface temperatures, so WWU Professor Don Easterbrook forecasts 30 years of global cooling ahead. But scientists at the UK Met Office's Hadley Centre, who say their models already incorporate solar activity and ocean cycles to forecast temperatures, claim that trends in global temperature over the past century show the Earth's temperature rising despite short-term cooling periods. Professor Mojib Latif with the IPCC agrees. He admits a short cooling phase but ominously warns that "the overwhelming force of man-made global warming" will soon follow. Hudson describes Latif as "one of the world's top climate modelers."

The article closes with an admission that the debate is far from over. There is ample scientific evidence disproving the idea that global warming is man-made and that to avoid imminent eco-catastrophy, we must shackle ourselves with crippling government regulations to curb carbon emissions. Though Hudson's reporting is hardly objective, he at least gives voice and legitimacy to a modicum of that evidence. Most of his eco-savvy colleagues would not have that decency.

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WMD said:

Peer review = bogus review Charles, an analysis of the "peer" reviewed "scientific" literature shows time and time again the same close nit (not knit) group of people who review each other's papers and don't care two hoots if they just cherry pick the data in the most scandolous way. Global warming is not science, it is political propoganda as bad as the WMD saga where we were assured evidence existed, evidence that it later turned out was only a figment of the imagination of the politicians. Well, we now have another dodgy dossier and "Weather of Mass Destruction" and the public are being taken for another ride with sexed up facts,.

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October 15, 2009
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Bonnie said:

New research suggests that the CO2 level of the atmosphere was a lot higher during the Medieval Warm Period than today. CO2 levels in 2008 - 385.57 ppm CO2 levels in 1940 - 391.5 ppm CO2 levels in 1827 - 441 ppm CO2 levels in 1200 - estimated to be over 2000 ppm Greenland was about 2 degrees Fahrenheit warmer in 1200 AD than it is today. Greenland was warmer in 1920 than it is today. The Viking settlements (982 - 1500) are part of the evidence that Greenland was once much warmer than it is today. Polar bears - A 2002 U.S. Geological Survey of wildlife in the Arctic Refuge Coastal Plain noted that the polar bear populations “may now be near historic highs.” The alarm about the future of polar bear decline is based on speculative computer model predictions many decades in the future. And the methodology of these computer models is being challenged by many scientists and forecasting experts. “Of the 13 populations of polar bears in Canada, 11 are stable or increasing in number. They are not going extinct, or even appear to be affected at present,” Canadian biologist Dr. Mitchell Taylor said. “It is just silly to predict the demise of polar bears in 25 years based on media-assisted hysteria.” Anyone with half a brain can see the issue IS settled. All the real evidence shows global warming to be a myth.

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Eve said:

I am tired of global warmists The planet is cooling folks. We had our 18 years of warming and now it is done. The people in the 20's got 3 decades of warming but I was born in the 50's so I got to live through 3 decades of cooling until...18 years of warming. Yes, I liked it but now it is cooling again and it will not warm again in my lifetime. But for some reason that 18 years of warming irked the environmentalists. They are not content with the 1 Billion people they have killed so far. They want more. So now they will ask the government to raise the price of fuel so high that we all freeze to death. The joke is on them, they will freeze too.

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October 15, 2009
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OhNoWe'reAllGonnaDie! said:

	Gerald Jones is still in step 2 1.Deny that global warming is a hoax. 2.Fight the scientific evidence that global warming is a hoax. 3.Dilute the hoax by saying perhaps you slightly overstated it. 4.Delay the hoax by saying catastrophe may not be as near as you thought. 5.Admit it is a hoax and market some other catastrophe.
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October 15, 2009
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Flu-Bird said:

	Its all about control This whole GLOBAL WARMING fruad is all about control of our lives by the UN and the various eco-wackos we certianly dont need any of these one worlders who worship gaia
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October 15, 2009
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Read your own words said:

Gerald, are you blind? Gerald Gerald Gerald...... If everyone jumped of a bridge would you do it too? ever heard that before??? seriously, that phrase is around for a reason. not to mention, you completely ignore scientific history, instead you continually site (websites, of all else, YEAH those are 100% accurate) articles that talke about what MONEY influenced governments and MAN are doing. yes, the russian and the canadian expendatures are surely and indication of FACT and TRUTH. naaaa they're not speculation....naaaa. hey gerald, i have some ocean front property in Colorado for sale, CHEAP!! you should check it out, everyone is buying it! didn't you hear? the conintent is going to split! get it now while you can! I hope my sarcasm is understood. please temper your facts with reality, not monetary speculation.

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October 16, 2009
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Seneca said:

	Speaks for Itself. http://commons.wikimedia.org/w...Record.png Res Ipsa.
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October 16, 2009
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steve1953 said:

	... THIS IS THE SUN NOW http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/images/latest_eit_304.gif THIS IS THE SUN IN 1997 http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/eit/images/eit_19971207_0700_ratio.gif Any questions why it was so hot in 1998?
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October 16, 2009
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RChaston said:

You People Tickle Me I'm just sick of all this bulls**t about Global Warming, oh no, the temperature rises a couple of degrees and the world is ending. Yet the temperature changes from -30 in the winter, here in Southern Ontario to +30 in the summer, a 60 degree change all within a couple of months. To base a theory on a couple of hundred years of data on a system that has existed for millions of years is just stupid, you might as well try telling me that global warming is responsible for day to day temperature changes. But hey, look on the bright side, if the global warming alarmists get their way, we can all look forward to paying massive carbon taxes. Not just big corporations that release more than allowed, but you, me and your neighbour down the street. After all, we all inhale oxygen and guess what we exhale. You got it CO2. You'll know it's all bulls**t when they start talking about adding carbon tax to your personal income tax. As with everything else, just follow the money, and ask yourself who wins and who loses.

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October 17, 2009
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David Herron said:

... Um, of course a lot of the energy coming to the planet comes from the Sun. And of course variations in the energy coming from the Sun would vary the temperature here. The human caused part of this is human-induced atmosphere changes which make the atmosphere more efficient at trapping the heat coming from the Sun. Hence global warming would involve two effects going on simultaneously - changes in Sun temperature, and changes in atmosphere chemistry. Seems obvious.

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October 29, 2009 | url
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