WHAT? IS THIS THE BBC?  THE LEFTIST, ANTI-AMERICAN, SUPER-TRENDY BBC?  YES IT IS.  YES THEY CAN - AT 11:12 A.M.  Well, it took one mainstream news organization to break the silence on the global-warming racket, and BBC does it with a fine piece questioning the conventional "wisdom":

This headline may come as a bit of a surprise, so too might that fact that the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998.

But it is true. For the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures.

And our climate models did not forecast it, even though man-made carbon dioxide, the gas thought to be responsible for warming our planet, has continued to rise.

So what on Earth is going on?

Climate change sceptics, who passionately and consistently argue that man's influence on our climate is overstated, say they saw it coming.

And they were laughed at, and called the equivalent of Holocaust deniers.

What is really interesting at the moment is what is happening to our oceans. They are the Earth's great heat stores.

According to research conducted by Professor Don Easterbrook from Western Washington University last November, the oceans and global temperatures are correlated...

And, after a period of warming, the oceans are starting to cool.

Climate change sceptics argue that this is evidence that they have been right all along.

They say there are so many other natural causes for warming and cooling, that even if man is warming the planet, it is a small part compared with nature.

But those scientists who are equally passionate about man's influence on global warming argue that their science is solid.

And it's the true believers who, unfortunately, have the ear of politicians, starting with science whiz and chief cook Al Gore.

So what can we expect in the next few years?

Both sides have very different forecasts. The Met Office says that warming is set to resume quickly and strongly.

It predicts that from 2010 to 2015 at least half the years will be hotter than the current hottest year on record (1998).

Sceptics disagree. They insist it is unlikely that temperatures will reach the dizzy heights of 1998 until 2030 at the earliest. It is possible, they say, that because of ocean and solar cycles a period of global cooling is more likely.

One thing is for sure. It seems the debate about what is causing global warming is far from over. Indeed some would say it is hotting up.

COMMENT:  Yes indeed.  It sure is "hotting up."  And this country is being asked by the "international community" to spend trillions of dollars, and possibly wreck our economy, on the basis of "science" that may turn out to be entirely wrong. 

Let's be sure.  Is that too much to ask?

October 10, 2009