global cool... er, warm... er, climate change...

yeah, that's the ticket!

"Recently, media and politicians have virtually stopped talking about global warming and are now referring to climate change instead," states de Freitas. "That's because predictions of doom and gloom from warming just aren't coming true. But with 'climate change,' Kyoto advocates can now cite any change or phenomenon as proof that CO2 emissions have upset the global apple cart."

It's the old 'heads-I-win, tails-you-lose' trick played on a massive scale by "the global warming industry" who want to keep their hundreds of millions of research dollars flowing when their dire predictions of catastrophic warming are proven false, if not completely fraudulent...

Currently, Greenland is losing ice on its southern margins but is gaining ice in its interior -- a measurable fact.

Meanwhile, the Antarctic is cooling, with the exception of a small Antarctic peninsula as a result of currents.

"There's been global cooling since 1998 because 1998 was the hottest year in the last 150 years," says de Freitas, adding "10,000 years ago it was much warmer than it is now."

"From 1900 to 1940 there was global warming," he says, even though large scale industrialization didn't start until 1948.

"Then, from 1940 to 1979 there was global cooling and that happened when we were putting heaps of carbon into the air."

(emphases mine)

via this post at Cox & Forkum, which has many more interesting links.