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The Pause

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Global warming denier deniers–you still with me–are calling the last 17, going on 18 years of non warming, a pause.  The problem with this moniker is that prior to the 20 plus years of temperature increases the earth was essentially cooling for the 35 years prior.  That trend led experts to believe we were going into a deep freeze.

We’ve only seen a warming trend in 22 out of the past 60 years.  The present trend in solar cycles points to a continued cooling trend, perhaps as intense as the Maunder minimum.  That means that the brief period of warming the climate-chicken-littles have pegged all their hopes to…was the pause.

Looking forward, we need to consider that winters like the past one, while not an annual event, will be more frequent and successive.  We need to consider how we will provide affordable heat to the tens of millions of americans who will have to deal with prolonged frigid temperatures.

So if you’d like to take a pause from your pause, or even if you want to cling to the pause, consider that it could be a long, cold pause, and we need to prepare for it.

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