Are Climate Change Facts Sustainable?

In desperation climate change activists have launched a campaign, dubbed Forecast the Facts, that outs television meteorologists who are "deniers" of mainstream climate change science. This should be fun since the vast majority of meteorologists are climate skeptics. Weather Channel founder John Coleman, blogger Anthony Watts and frequent FoxNews guest Joe Bastardi are three good examples. A survey of television weather­casters last summer found that 19 percent attributed climate change to mostly human causes. In other words only one in five are buying into the Al Gore's apocalypticism.

One must wonder exactly which "facts" the Forecast the Facts crowd think are worthy of propagandizing. Last week the British Met Office and the University of East Anglia, dubbed the University of Easy Access by columnist James Delingpole because of its two Climategate email leaks, issued a report that has gone ignored in the popular press. According to that paper there is a 92 per cent chance that both Solar Cycle 25 and those taking place in the following decades will be as weak as, or weaker than, the ‘Dalton minimum’ of 1790 to 1830. In this period, named after the meteorologist John Dalton, average temperatures in parts of Europe fell by 2C. OMG! I wouldn't be too alarmed. If you are old enough to be reading this post chance are, like the global warming catastrophe you've heard so much about, you'll be long dead before the worst of it hits Mother Gaia.

As you can see from the above chart that comes from the citadel of global warming we are back about where we where in 1997 but billions poorer for listening to the Forecast the Facts crowd. The warmingist's argument stresses that the sun is something of a bit player in climate, subordinated to that nefarious villain carbon dioxide. View the next chart and make up your own mind. Maybe solar panels can be recycled into sleds.