KEEP THIS FROM AL GORE, PLEASE! – AT 8:51 A.M. ET:  We have a spirit of kindness here, and believe that Al Gore is distressed enough by recent reports of record cold in parts of the United States.  We fear this would push him over the edge.  From the Washington Times: 

NASA truly has the 100,000 feet viewpoint on this one,

The nation’s space agency has noticed an inconvenient cooling on the planet lately. On Tuesday, NASA’s Langley Research Center atmospheric scientist Norman Loeb presented a talk titled “The recent pause in global warming: A temporary blip or something more permanent?”

The lecture explores how “global warming may be on vacation,” NASA helpfully explains.

Uh-oh. Paging Al Gore. There’s even a new term for the phenomenon.

Mr. Loeb’s presentation offered the most recent research related to a slowdown in surface warming referred to as the “global warming hiatus,” the federal agency says. Over the last 15-years, the global mean surface temperature of Earth has increased at a rate that is roughly one-third of that over the past 60 years, NASA notes.

COMMENT:  "Global warming hiatus" may turn out to be another term for "we screwed up."  Remember:  the global warming "community" is asking that nations spend trillions of dollars on things to combat "global warming."  But the predictions about global warming are falling apart.  So why spend the money? 

I get a sense of incipient panic among the Gorists.  Things aren't working out, and checkbooks aren't being whipped out.  Stay tuned for more.

August 6,  2014