Well it is getting colder, but that is a sign that it is getting warmer.

According to data from the National Space Science and Technology Center in Huntsville, Ala., the global high temperature in 1998 was 0.76 degrees Celsius (1.37 degrees Fahrenheit) above the average for the previous 20 years.

And what do the disciples of the Global Warming Religion say?

"The preponderance of evidence is that global warming will resume," Nicholas Bond, a meteorologist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in Seattle, said in an e-mail.( The evidence that is cooling, and was cooling in the 70's and 80's is proof that it will get warm again. DUH, weather changes guys)

"Natural variability can account for the slowing of the global mean temperature rise we have seen," said Jeff Knight, a climate expert at the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research in Exeter, England( You mean weather changes naturally? Without man? That can't be.)..............

"It's entirely possible to have a period as long as a decade or two of cooling superimposed on the long-term warming trend," said David Easterling, chief of scientific services at NOAA's National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C.(Or is it a decade or two of warming superimposed on the long term cooling trend?)

"These short term fluctuations are statistically insignificant (and) entirely due to natural internal variability," Easterling said in an essay published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters in April. "It's easy to 'cherry pick' a period to reinforce a point of view." (DUH, thats what the disciples have been doing since they saw their "global cooling" go bust in the 80's. Al Gore is the ultimate cherry picker)

John Christy, the director of the Earth System Science Center at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, intelligently stated...... "Our ignorance of the climate system is still enormous, and our policy makers need to know that . . . We really don't know much about what causes multi-year changes like this." (So we really should go crazy with legislation to combat what we don't know much about.Right? Or should we learn more before we bankrupt the United States and halt all human activity?)

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