So, what have I learned recently…

1. A major respected climate modeler, predicts 20-30 years of cooling ahead, a minor downslope on a larger uptrend.

2. A few AGW backers go out on the Arctic Ice an tell us it’s young ice, which was plainly obvious because we have the satellite data to tell us where all the new ice is since 2007, the recorded low, when the young ice was water. They go on to say how positively sure they are the ice will disappear with the next 10 years. See above cooling trend in #1.

3. We’ve got someone at Caltech who finds a way using isotopes of some sort that CO2 is very high. Was there any a dispute that CO2 was high? And, last time it was this high, the world was a different place, much hotter. Might this not be as much evidence against CO2 being a major factor as it is for?

And ignored by all, except maybe the guy in #1, is the one trend we are certain is highly correlated with climate - sunspot activity. We are in a minimum that is pretty much unique in modern times. My prediction is that we’ve got a hell of a winter on the way. The arctic ice is pretty safe year round.

Anyway, maybe, the next time we vote to spend 800 billion dollars, of which about 1/4 was used in wise fashion, we take the other 3/4s and parter with industry to foster the construction 50-100 pebble bed reactors in the US. And we do it to improve the economics of the country instead of pork that accomplishes nothing. And when we do it we don’t even mention AGW. We just do it because it makes so much damn sense.