Headlines around the world are reporting exceptionally frigid conditions
and unusually high levels of snowfall in recent weeks. They tout these events
as records, but few people understand how short the record actually is -- usually
less than 50 years, a mere instant in Earth’s 4.6-billion year history. The
reality is that, when viewed in a wider context, there is nothing unusual about
current weather patterns.
Despite this fact,
the media -- directly, indirectly, or by inference -- often attribute the
current weather to global warming. Yes, they now call it climate change. But
that is because activists realized, around 2004, that the warming predicted by
the computer models on which the scare is based was not actually happening.
Carbon dioxide (CO2) levels continued to increase, but the temperature stopped
increasing. So, the evidence no longer fit the theory. English biologist Thomas Huxley
commented on this dilemma over a century ago: "The great
tragedy of science -- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly
fact."
