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THE CHALLENGES OF GLOBAL COOLING AND THE HIGH COST OF GLOBAL WARMING POLICIES
http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/the-challenges-of-global-cooling-and-the-high-cost-of-global-warming-policies/
Within the body of its main report, the U.N. has been forced to back away from alarmist claims made in its previous assessments. The pause in global warming, the failure of climate models, the expansion of Antarctic sea ice and the Medieval Warming of 1,000 years ago, are among the “retreats” the NIPCC lead authors have identified. Yet, the U.N.’s Summary for Policymakers, which precedes the main report claims it is “extremely likely that human influence has been the dominate cause of observed warming since the mid-20th Century.” The attitude here seems to be never let the facts get in the way of an alarmist narrative; especially one that can be used to rationalize the anti-energy regulations that flow out of government agencies. But there’s a complicating factor that could make the U.N. position completely untenable in the near future. A growing body of evidence now points to a global cooling phase that could persist for decades. There is, for example, a group of German scientists who predict temperatures could fall for the remainder of the 21st Century.