I have never bought into the whole global warming threat. I live in Phoenix, I know first-hand there is no possible way that it could get any warmer here without having blue-haired old ladies burst into flames like burning Q-Tips. Besides that I have always had a weird feeling in my heart and it’s never let me buy into the idea that Al Gore was right and we were all going to boil. For God sakes the weatherman on the morning show I watch while getting ready for work can’t tell me what the weather is going to be later today with any sort of accuracy. For those of you in-the-know I just moved BACK to Phoenix from Southwest Florida. For the last 2 years the hurricanes were supposed to wipe us off the face of the Earth and it never happened. Plus I can tell you it’s so freakin’ cold here in the desert right now I had to go buy a jacket for the first time in 12 years. Here’s some more proof that Al Gore is talking out of his ass…

Year of global cooling

Al Gore says global warming is a planetary emergency. It is difficult to see how this can be so when record low temperatures are being set all over the world. In 2007, hundreds of people died, not from global warming, but from cold weather hazards.

Since the mid-19th century, the mean global temperature has increased by 0.7 degrees Celsius. This slight warming is not unusual, and lies well within the range of natural variation. Carbon dioxide continues to build in the atmosphere, but the mean planetary temperature hasn’t increased significantly for nearly nine years. Antarctica is getting colder. Neither the intensity nor the frequency of hurricanes has increased. The 2007 season was the third-quietest since 1966. In 2006 not a single hurricane made landfall in the U.S. South America this year experienced one of its coldest winters in decades.

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