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Is climate change to blame for the frigid weather and snow showing up in areas of the south where such weather is rarely ever found?

No. The Arctic is not warming. Look it up. The media push a great mistruth that the Arctic is warming (not true) and as a result the jet stream is sending Arctic weather South. This is bunk on all accounts and is as dishonest surely as ignoring that the Emperor has no clothes. First, the Arctic is not warming this year OR the past decades and January and Feb this year like the past have the coldest temperatures in the Arctic climate.Climate in Nunavut, CanadaLook it up at accu weather and you will see that since Jan 01 2021 Nunavut has not had one day or night of temperatures higher than - 15 * C. Today it is - 16 * C. Calling these temperatures a “warming Arctic” responsible for a brutal colder Texas is surely dishonest yet the Texan Alarmist scientist Kathryn Hayhoe did just that on the Fareed Zakaria show this week showing her abject confirmation biases.-16°F°CPrecipitation: 67%Humidity: 79%Wind: 5 km/hIqaluit, NUYes, warming climate does increase precipitation, but it does not make the weather colder enough to snow or worse. Here is a major research study published in NATURE.Journal Nature Refutes PIK’s Fantasy-Rich Science That A Warmer Arctic Causes Extreme Cold SnapsBy P Gosselin on9. February 2021Share this...The polar vortex theory takes a beating: The claim a warm Arctic is behind the brutally cold winter conditions at the mid latitudes is shown by a Nature study to be scientifically baseless.Hat-tip: Die kalte Sonne.Now that Europe and North America are getting blasted by unusually severe winter weather, which climate alarmists predicted 20 years ago would be a thing of the past, the alarmists are desperate to find an explanation to escape embarrassment.PIK science suggests warmth begets coldThey’ve come up with the polar vortex explanation: the bitter cold we are now experiencing at the middle latitudes is in fact due to the warmer Arctic, they say. And this wreaks havoc on the jet stream which in turn results in cold Arctic blasts dipping deep into the middle latitudes. Yes, cold winters are in fact exactly what we should expect in a rapidly warming world!Levermann and RahmstorfFor example the two media front men Anders Levermann and Stefan Rahmstorf of the Potsdam Climate Institute (PIK) have been telling this to the ever gullible German media outlets, like Bild and Spiegel. Yet, many suspect it’s scientific fraud designed to fool the public and to hide the fact that their global warming predictions are in reality glaring failures.Journal Nature refutes fantasy-rich PIK explanationFor example a recent paper appearing in Nature titled “Weakened evidence for mid-latitude impacts of Arctic warming“, authored by Blackport et al, refutes this highly fantasy-rich hypothesis pitched by the two PIK scientists.The Nature article writes:Jennifer Francis, whose seminal work proposed that Arctic warming was leading to a wavier jet stream, predicted in 2014 that “within a few years, as Arctic amplification continues, we will have enough data to know whether or not we’re right”6.So, six years on, what has changed? Arctic amplification and sea-ice loss have indeed continued (Fig. 1). But predictions of a more negative Arctic Oscillation, wavier jet stream, colder winters in mid-latitudes or, more specifically, in Eurasia, and more frequent and/or widespread cold extremes have not become reality (Fig. 1).Cold waves have been decreasingOther experts have also noticed what PIK is doing here. Dr. Roy Spencer wrote at his blog in 2019 that U.S. cold waves have been decreasing, thus contradicting the PIK:Source: Dr. Roy Spencer.“The trend is markedly downward in the most recent 40 years (since 1979) which is the earliest we have reliable measurements of Arctic sea ice from satellite microwave radiometers (my specialty),” Spencer noted.“Made to fit where they don’t fit”Also on Rahmstorf’s claim Arctic warmth begets extreme cold, Swiss veteran meteorologist Jörg Kachelmann tweeted directly:You never know which is more terrible and unscrupulous, all the right-wing nuts who see a winter weather situation as an argument against the climate crisis or the desperately unscientific @rahmstorf who now also attributes an ordinary winter weather situation to climate change,”On the Rahmstorf’s approach, Kachelmann adds:No, there’s hardly any science in the story.Things are being made to fit where they don’t fit. As always.”Der Spiegel’s “rubbish”Unfortunately, the polar vortex tale has been effective at duping the gullible media journalists, like those at Der Spiegel. They too are trying to hide their embarrassment of having been suckered by the manmade global warming catastrophe hoax over the past 3 decades. Kachelmannwetter.com tweets further:The polar vortex is doing very well.But because hardly anyone will verify this, because no one knows what it is and what it should look like, @derspiegel throwsthrows the principles of editorial control overboard and writes rubbish.”But don’t expect the media to concede they’ve been duped any time soon. It’s like one famous scientist once said: “Science progresses one funeral at a time.”It’s going to take awhile longer.Journal Nature Refutes PIK’s Fantasy-Rich Science That A Warmer Arctic Causes Extreme Cold SnapsSEARCH RESULTS FOR: NUNAVUT RECORD COLDExtreme Weather GSMKUGAARUK, CANADA SUFFERS A RECORD -47C (52.6F) WITH A WINDCHILL BELOW -60C (-76F)JANUARY 6, 2021 CAP ALLON0 COMMENTExtreme windchills have also buffeted the Nunavut communities of Shepherd Bay and Taloyoak in recent days, with both registering lows of -62C (-http://79.CF).Articles Extreme WeatherRECORD BREAKING BLIZZARD BLASTS NUNAVUT, CANADADECEMBER 31, 2020 CAP ALLON0 COMMENT…shaking houses and crushing cabins.Extreme Weather GSMNORTHWEST TERRITORIES TO SUFFER “COLDER-THAN-AVERAGE WINTER,” WARNS ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE CANADANOVEMBER 21, 2020 CAP ALLON0 COMMENT“People should be aware of colder-than-average (temps) with more snow than average and should definitely prepare,” warns ECCC meteorologist Terri Lang.What global warming? We live in the middle of an ice age and it is inapt to use the term global warming when our climate is determined by glacial and inter glacial weather. The snow and cold in Texas happened across the globe.Paris Accord globalists pushed with full big media support the unfounded theory of global warming and ignored the reality of our climate in an inter glacial period of an ice age i.e. our Pleistocene Epoch and Holocene Conundrum. Think about this madness that today the UN issues a report on UN Blueprint that Could Urgently Solve Earth’s Triple Climate Emergencies and wow this is how they would save the world by defunding anymore fossil fuels - "MEANING OF INTERGLACIAL CLIMATE?Interglacial DescriptionAn interglacial period is a geological interval of warmer global average temperature lasting thousands of years that separates consecutive glacial periods within an ice age. The current Holocene interglacial began at the end of the Pleistocene, about 11,700 years ago. WikipediaCharacterizing Interglacial Periods over the Past 800,000 YearsResearchers identified 11 different interglacial periods over the past 800,000 years, but the interglacial period we are experiencing now may last an exceptionally long time.SOURCE: Reviews of GeophysicsResearchers identified 11 different interglacial periods, during which glaciers retreat and sea levels rise, over the past 800,000 years. Credit: Matito, CC BY-SA 2.0By Cody Sullivan2 March 2016Global climate patterns have undergone a remarkable shift in the past 600,000 to 1.2 million years. Before the transition, glacial cycles, consisting of cold ice ages and milder interludes, typically lasted about 40,000 years—but those weaker cycles gave way to longer-lasting icy eras with cycles lasting roughly 100,000 years. In between the cold ice ages are periods of thawing and warming known as interglacial periods, during which sea levels rise and ice retreats…Although most interglacials typically last about 10,000 to 30,000 years, the researchers suggest that the current epoch—the Holocene—may last much longer because of the increased levels of atmospheric greenhouse gases resulting from human activity.This optimism is not based on the latest science which shows the earth is cooling.Harvard research has restructured a more accurate picture of our Holocene inter glacial climate with the SURPRISE and unexpected finding finding the temperatures are in a 5000 year decline after the dramatic warming melting glaciers covering Canada and the US -Why Worry about Warming? Cold is the KillerNovember 16, 2020 by Robert“We live now in the latter days of the Holocene Warm Period. There may be short bursts of warming, but the big trend is down. Temperature has been trending down for over 3,000 years. A frigid period lies ahead.” – Viv ForbesGlobal Cooling: Are You Ready for the Real Climate Change?March 8, 2018 by RobertMember of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe warns that “the global climate is going to grow dangerously colder.”_________________“With increasing frequency, growing seasons around the planet will be interrupted by extreme weather events, like devastating frosts, snow, hail and flooding in late spring or early autumn that will destroy crops and cause food shortages. It has happened before, and it has already started to happen again.” – Rod Van MechelenWe would be at war"If a foreign nation had launched an attack on America to destroy its coal-fired plants, to shut down its coal mines, and to thwart its ability to drill for oil and natural gas, we would be at war with it." - Alan Caruba (Click to see entire article)* * *Temperatures warmer than today during most of the past 10,000 years* * *Anyone who says we’re enduring “unprecedented global warming”is lying or woefully misinformed_________________Global Cooling: Are You Ready for the Real Climate Change?By Rod Van MechelenThe mainstream fake news media and the political establishment want you to believe that CO2 is causing global warming and that you are responsible. But the truth is that global warming is part of a long cycle, and because we are unprepared for global cooling, billions will die.The Big Chill2018 Olympia, Wash. – Truckloads of government money have gone to prove that you are responsible for global warming climate change and, like in the movies, we have to sacrifice virgins to the weather gods to…sorry, wrong epoch. Correction: we have to sacrifice your standard of living to Al Gore to save the planet 100 years from now. Except that they’re lying and expect billions of us to die within ten years.The truth is that global warming stopped in 1998. Global cooling began in 2015. And within a few years at most the world is likely to experience crop-destroying extreme weather events.At worst this could be the end of the current interglacial period, also known as the Holocene, and a resumption of the ice age. The middle case is that the solar hibernation will be as extreme as it was during what is called the Little Ice Age, which began around 1645 and ended around 1850.Whatever the case, the global climate is going to grow dangerously colder. It’s not the cold that will pose the danger, however, but the unseasonable weather it will bring. Some parts of the world, like the west coast of North America, could actually get warmer. East of the Cascades, however, it will probably get much colder. And with increasing frequency, growing seasons around the planet will be interrupted by extreme weather events, like devastating frosts, snow, hail and flooding in late spring or early autumn that will destroy crops and cause food shortages. It has happened before, and it has already started to happen again.Climate Change DeniersThis is the real climate change happening right now. There are no climate change deniers. There are skeptics of the claims about manmade global warming who, sometimes in the heat of a debate or speech will blurt that there is no climate change. But they know better. By definition, climate changes, and nobody denies it.But climate, like the weather, is cyclical. American Indian tribal traditions and oral history reflect that. We know that all things follow cycles. So it should come as no surprise that climate changes in regular cycles, too. Those who use insults to lump legitimate skeptics of the global warming political agenda with holocaust deniers, divert attention from the global cooling that could kill you if you’re not prepared, and silence those who would warn us that the cold climate is coming.Yes, but, what about clean energy? Why do global warming skeptics oppose clean energy? We don’t. Most of the people who reject claims that you are responsible for global warming are not opposed to clean energy. But we do reject the claim that carbon dioxide is a pollutant. What oxygen is for animals, carbon dioxide is for plants. If we were able to increase atmospheric carbon dioxide by tenfold, forests, farms and even deserts would thrive as plants require less water when they have more carbon dioxide.But isn’t carbon dioxide a greenhouse gas? Yes, but so is water vapor. Global warming alarmists don’t want you to know that. This was demonstrated by the documents handed out at the 2017 Tribal Climate Camps, which omitted this fact from the documents on their website.Source: “How Earth’s Climate System Works,” by Alex Bryan-PDF, presented at the 2017 Tribal Climate Camp sponsored by the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians and the University of Washington.They omitted that water vapor comprises 95 percent of the greenhouse gases and accounts for 75 percent of the greenhouse effect: when ocean temperatures increase due to heating by the sun, water vapor increases due to evaporation, which causes atmospheric temperatures to increase even more, causing ocean temperatures to rise, releasing carbon dioxide.Warm water cannot hold as much carbon dioxide as cold water. You can prove that with a bottle of carbonated water. Put one open bottle in your fridge and the other open bottle on the kitchen counter. The one on the counter will go flat, while the one in the fridge will not. It’s the same for the oceans. As they get warmer, they release carbon dioxide. In other words, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere increases due to a rise in global temperature, not the other way around, and water vapor, not carbon dioxide, is the primary greenhouse gas.The counter argument to this, is that carbon dioxide increases first, causing ocean temperatures to rise, which causes water vapor to increase due to evaporation, and so on. But aside from the fact that this implies we could eliminate the sun and heat the earth with carbon dioxide, which is absurd, it ignores the Minoan Warm Period (4,000 years ago) and Roman Warm Period (2,000 years ago), both of which were warmer than the current epoch. As there were no automobiles belching carbon dioxide into the atmosphere way back then, it should be clear that the sun was the primary driver of the climate change then, and it’s the primary driver of the climate change, now.Why would government agencies omit that from their presentation? Why would all the government reports indicate that global temperature is rising due to human emissions of carbon dioxide rather than natural causes? Follow the money: greenhouse gas emissions can be taxed and carbon dioxide “pollution” can be regulated.The Climategate email controversies in 2009 and 2011 exposed that some scientists are intentionally tampering with data to support the manmade global warming agenda. While the people trying to expose this agenda are mostly self-funded grassroots efforts, there are billions of dollars of government grants mobilized to discredit them and make you believe that you are the problem. But follow the money, and you will find it leading from global warming back to interests that are not our own. And when the cold reality of the solar minimum finally sinks in, the number of deaths worldwide due to hunger and malnutrition could number in the billions.Many Deaths by Cold and Starvation v. Many More by PanicFirst, it’s important to understand that we’re not talking about mountains of ice burying Canada and the northern United States. This is not the end of the world. But there could be mass hysteria due to food shortages caused by short growing seasons because summer comes late, winter comes early, and unseasonable storms cause widespread crop damage. So this is about food prices skyrocketing and people going hungry.John Casey, former NASA scientist, White House adviser and author of Dark Winter, says that inside sources assured him that President Barack Obama was aware that global cooling was imminent. But in an interview with TruNews, he speculated that the reason President Obama perpetuated the myth about manmade global warming was because he believed that if the people knew what is coming then 80 percent or more of the global population would die in the ensuing panic. While if the truth was hidden until the last possible moment, less than 30 percent of the population would die from global cooling and the starvation that the unseasonable storms will bring.Casey also warns that global cooling is accompanied by an increase in earthquake activity. Like global cooling, this is caused by the sun. When the output of the sun wanes, it allows more cosmic rays into the solar system. An increase in cosmic rays causes an increase in cloud cover, which accelerates global cooling, and coincides with an increase in earthquakes. So Casey warns that the New Madrid and San Andreas faults, and the southern end of the Cascadia Subduction Zone will be most at risk.Who Can You Believe?On the one side are politicians, federal, state and local government agencies and government grant funded scientists warning us about global warming caused by the relatively tiny amounts of carbon dioxide that human activity releases into the atmosphere. They tell us the polar ice caps are melting, polar bears are vanishing because of this, and by the end of the 21st century many coastal cities will be flooded as the oceans rise due to all the melting ice.On the other side are engineers, independent scientists and retired government officials telling us that natural processes account for most atmospheric carbon dioxide, that carbon dioxide is plant food, water vapor has a greater affect on climate than carbon dioxide, the ice caps are not melting, the ice sheets on Greenland and Antarctica are growing, there are more polar bears today than there were twenty years ago, that climate is driven primarily by the affect of the sun on our oceans, and the sun is going into a cyclical hibernation that will not only cause global cooling, but could even push us back into the ice age.As American Indians know, politicians and federal agencies always tell the truth. (That’s a joke.) So, who should we trust? The politicians, who tell us we need to sacrifice your standard of living to Al Gore? Or the engineers and scientists, who tell us that a dangerously cold climate has begun and the next thirty years or more are going to see severe food shortages due to crops destroyed by unseasonable storms?You have to answer that question for yourself, but both sides agree that climate change will cause extreme weather events. And that is something for which you can prepare.Preparing for Extreme Weather EventsWhat can you do to prepare for crop-destroying extreme weather events? The most obvious would be to stockpile food. Companies like Costco sells large bags of rice, beans, canned fruits, vegetables, meats, and other staples. Costco and Improvise, Adapt and Overcome also sell canned meats and emergency rations with a long shelf life.If you have space for it, consider a green house. Along the pacific coast of the United States, torrential rain is likely to be a bigger problem than frosts that come in the spring and fall. Greenhouses can protect against that. Food shortages may cause food riots, which could disrupt services we take for granted, like water and electricity. So for short duration emergencies it’s important to have water and a gas stove, enough to last at least three days.And be prepared to defend yourself. When food becomes scarce crime will increase. Good, decent people will become desperate. And as the old saying goes, desperate people do desperate things.The rest depends in part on where you live. Communities around the New Madrid, San Andreas and southern Cascadia earthquake zones could experience severe breakdowns of the infrastructure, while it’s possible that the worst to affect western Washington State will be cold winters, wet summers, tornadoes and tsunamis. So the pacific coast could be one of the more hospitable places to live. But we are still likely to get extreme weather events. With that in mind, if you are planning to build, consider a monolithic dome home rather than a stick frame house. I am.The Day After TomorrowThe first prominent voices to raise the alarm about human caused global warming were Margaret Thatcher and Al Gore, both politicians. The people raising the alarm about solar cycle caused global cooling are scientists and engineers.They say that the ice sheets on Greenland and East Antarctica are growing. Dr. Don Easterbrook, Professor Emeritus of Geology at Western Washington University, dismisses claims of a 97 percent consensus among scientists about manmade global warming as false, if not an outright lie. See, for example, his Global Warming HOAX & Facts video, linked below. And in his book, Dark Winter, John Casey outlines the natural cycles that cause both global warming and global cooling.While there are thousands of scientists who will tell you that humans are causing global warming, most of them are receiving money from the government. But there are no government grants to investigate global cooling, so most of the engineers and scientists who are warning us about global cooling are doing it on their own dime.As global temperatures decline, won’t people catch on to the truth? Won’t the lies of the global warming alarmists be exposed? Won’t billions of angry and hungry people demand answers? What could the global warming alarmists possibly say in response?The answer to that is found in the disaster movie, The Day After Tomorrow, in which a new ice age begins because the Atlantic Ocean heat conveyor that carries warm water from the equator up to Europe stops because manmade global warming causes too much ice to melt, decreasing the salinity of the ocean. So when the truth comes out, as millions if not billions of people suffer, they will blame global cooling on global warming. And you.For money and power politicians wasted more than a decade to blame you when they could have used that time to mobilize the resources of the nation and the planet to prepare us for the cold climate and crop destroying extreme weather events. Now, we have little time left, and the real climate change has already begun.Rod Van MechelenRod Van Mechelen is a Ron Paul Republican who lives and works in Olympia for the Washington State Health Care Authority as an Insurance Specialist. He served on the Cowlitz Indian Tribal Council from 2002 to 2012, was a Washington State delegate to the Republican National Convention in New York City in 2004, and founded The Backlash! @ Index Page: The Backlash! in 1995 to expose and oppose misandry and cultural Marxism. In between job, website and family activities, he continues to serve on tribal committees and publishes a bimonthly email newsletter for Cowlitz tribe members.Learn more about Rod here: Rod Van Mechelen Global Cooling: Are You Ready for the Real Climate Change?Coffee HouseAndrew MontfordThe good news on climate20 February 2021, 10:25pmAs I watch the snow blow past my window, it’s hard not to scoff at the idea of a ‘climate emergency’. However, I’m probably in a minority. The idea that we are currently experiencing a dangerous deterioration in our weather has been pushed so hard, and for so long, that the man in the Clapham Uber is now thoroughly convinced.Those of us who have the time and inclination to look at the evidence for such claims, on the other hand, realise that they are largely overblown. The Global Warming Policy Foundation, where I work, has just published a review of the impacts of climate change and it’s a valuable antidote to the relentless alarmism pushed by some academics.The paper is written by Indur Goklany, an American whose involvement in the climate field goes back 30 years when he was involved in the first United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) review of the world’s climate. So he knows what he is talking about, and the story he tells is one of almost unmitigated good news.There is a great deal of evidence that mankind is able to take the effects of climate change in its stride.Take extreme weather for example. For 30 years, everyone from the Met Office to Al Gore has been telling us that global warming is going to make things much worse. But as Goklany shows, it just hasn’t happened; three decades of shirt-tearing, tears and wailing on the subject have changed things barely at all. In most areas, this should mostly be uncontroversial: the IPCC said in 2013 that it has ‘low confidence’ that droughts and hurricanes have become worse globally, and the best it can say of extreme rainfall is that it thinks there have been more areas with increases than decreases.On heatwaves it goes further, saying that it has ‘medium confidence’ of a global increase. But while we shouldn’t shy away from discussions over how to tackle these issues, it is not the impending catastrophe that some might make it out to be.There is a great deal of evidence that mankind is able to take the effects of climate change in its stride.Goklany’s report isn’t just about refuting the bald claim that extreme weather has become worse across the board. It also deals with the broader suggestion that worsening weather will adversely affect human welfare. As he shows, mortality from extreme weather events is almost a thing of the past, having fallen by 99 per cent over the last century.Similarly, mankind now seems much better equipped to deal with the impact of weather and climate. Once you have adjusted for rising population and growing wealth, records of weather damage show, if anything, a long-term decline too.When you look at the broader impacts of climate change, it’s the same story. Take sea-level rise, for example. While it’s possible to argue about how fast it’s happening, and the relative merits of satellites and tide gauges for measuring the rate, Goklany points to a recent study that showed that siltation and reclamation are giving us new land around our coasts faster than any sea-level rise is removing it. In other words, we are taking sea-level rise in our stride — perhaps unsurprising since we have been building sea defences for the last 7,000 years.Similarly, a few years back, we were regularly assailed by stories of the disappearance of coral atolls, but the excitement seems to have died away, no doubt prompted by a series of studies showing that most atolls are actually stable or getting bigger. Amusingly, just as global warming was previously said to cause the atolls to disappear, it is now said to be the cause of their growth. Whatever the truth, it’s surely hard for any reasonable person to portray growing atolls as an emergency.And on it goes.Rates of death from climate-related disease — another favourite of the doom-mongers — haven’t just got better, they have collapsed, with astonishing falls in almost every category over the last 30 years. As an example, the death tolls from malaria and diarrhoea have both fallen by around a half. Of course, this is not a function of climate change; it’s all down to better medical care and the deployment of simple preventative measures such as insecticide-treated mosquito nets.The conclusion is hard to avoid: climate-related disease can be addressed with a little money and even less fuss. Like sea-level rise, it’s simply not an emergency.Global warming doesn’t seem to have damaged crops either.The food supply continues to grow, with fossil-fuel-derived fertilisers and the beneficial effects of higher carbon dioxide levels delivering new record yields across the globe almost every year.This is not to say that it hasn’t got warmer, but simply that any deleterious effects have been swamped by the benefits of carbon dioxide and by the technological advances that mankind has deployed.Fertilisers — both manmade and natural — have also had the beneficial side effect of reducing pressure on the natural world.Since the 1960s, the global population has more than doubled, but the area devoted to farmland has increased by only 8 per cent. Indeed, if it were not for environmentalists persuading governments that biofuels were a good idea, we might have seen countless thousands of hectares returned to nature already.Of course, Dr Goklany’s pointing this out will make not the slightest difference to the scientists, whose livelihoods depend on keeping politicians firm in a belief that the world is about to end. It’s easy enough for them to come up with new measures that seem to be getting worse.‘Rising crop yields? Pah, take a look at the fall in crop yield potential!’ they say. ‘Millions no longer dying from malaria? But look at the... erm... couple of thousand dying from dengue fever!’.Or they can predict that things will get worse — or more often, much worse — in the future. Soils will degrade they say, new diseases will arise, and of course extreme weather will get worse too.They say we should play it safe, therefore, altering the world’s economies and industrial practices to alleviate carbon emissions, just in case they are a threat to global climate stability. But as we career headlong into our net-zero emissions future, there is every sign that the costs of what is proposed will not only reverse many of the gains we have made in the last half-century but make things far worse than if we simply adopted a policy of adapting to what the climate throws at us.As Goklany shows, we are good at adaptation; we have been at it for a long time.And with the government stubbornly refusing to release an array of financial figures supporting their decarbonisation plans, there is a strong suggestion that they know the course they have started us down is unsupportable on any rational grounds. Their plans to ‘build back better’ are therefore likely to be a hammer blow to an economy that is already reeling from the pandemic.So if in a few year’s time you find you are worrying about paying the heating bill, or you can’t sell your house because you can’t afford the government-mandated insulation measures, you might like to cast your eye back over Dr Goklany’s paper and wonder why we set out on the course we did.WRITTEN BYAndrew MontfordAndrew Montford is deputy director of the Global Warming Policy Forum.

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