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Another Climate ingredient seemingly unaccounted for by the UN’s IPCC has researches at NASA forecasting colder global temperatures for the next 20 to 30 years. A slow cycling ocean pattern known as Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) has moved in to what’s being called “its cool phase,”¹ and this spells cold and wet weather for the entire planet. Reluctant to discard the global warming theory, however, scientists speculate it will remain active behind the scenes to endure the coming little ice age. Maybe it will move to Florida?

^1. Phil Brennan, “NASA Says Climate Shifting to Cooler Temperatures,” May 1, 2008.

NASA administrator Michael Griffin, who is a corroborating source in my recent article debunking Global Warming, was taken to closed-door arm-twisting Monday at JPL and harangued until an apology-of sorts-was wrangled out of him. Expressing regret for causing controversy, Griffin nevertheless held to his training in science and accurately classified the hubbub:

[U]nfortunately, this is an issue which has become far more political than technical, and it would have been well for me to have stayed out of it.

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TheNewsBeats.com is not surprised over the quick and decisive action that was taken to pressure Griffin to recant his personal observations. Global warming is indeed political, and relies on methods of coercing reminiscent of swastikas gone by, and which are again playing out here and abroad. In Britain:

The environmental fervor of most Greens borders on fanatical. Some call for the denial of climate change to be made a criminal offense, along the lines of legislation in European countries that makes denial of the Holocaust unlawful.

David Dansker

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