Global warming consensus swings and misses, again

Global warming ‘dips this year’
BBC News environment analyst

La Nina caused some of the coldest temperatures in memory in China. Global temperatures will drop slightly this year due to the cooling effect of the La Nina current in the Pacific, UN meteorologists have said. The World Meteorological Organization’s secretary-general, Michel Jarraud, told the BBC it was likely that La Nina would continue into the summer. This would mean global temperatures have not risen since 1998, prompting some to question climate change theory.

Those who question global warming, of course, are nothing more than holocaust deniers, flat earth types, isn’t that right Al Gore?

After all, we should never question the “scientific consensus“!

“The discoveries of changes in the sun’s heat and the southward advance of glaciers in recent years have given rise to conjectures of the possible advent of a new ice age.”
–Time Magazine, Sept. 10, 1923

“MacMillan Reports Signs of New Ice Age”
–The New York Times, Sept. 18, 1924

“America in Longest Warm Spell Since 1776; Temperature Line Records a 25-Year Rise”
–The New York Times, March 27, 1933

“Gaffers who claim that winters were harder when they were boys are quite right… weather men have no doubt that the world at
least for the time being is growing warmer.”
–Time Magazine, Jan. 2, 1939

“Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the
harbinger of another ice age.”
–Time Magazine, June 24, 1974

“Scientists Ponder Why World’s Climate is Changing; A Major Cooling Widely Considered to Be Inevitable”
–The New York Times, May 21, 1975

“[S]cientists no longer doubt that global warming is happening, and almost nobody questions the fact that humans are at least partly responsible. “
–Time Magazine, April 9, 2001

“Past Hot Times Hold Few Reasons to Relax About New Warming”
–The New York Times, Dec. 27, 2005