Eskimos Sue Over Global Warming

Wonders will never cease. An Eskimo village in Alaska is suing a whole bunch of oil companies and other major corporations claiming that their emissions are causing weather changes that have meant that the village is affected by severe storms eroding its shoreline.

Good luck with that suit, because the science isn't exactly in their favor.

This past year has seen near record snowfall across North America, snow in places that rarely see snow like Baghdad and Jerusalem, and major snows across China.

The solar portion of the global climate equation may be playing a far greater factor than any of the global warming hype-meisters wish were the case and global temperatures have actually fallen by the largest amounts ever recorded.

That last part is anecdotal to be sure (one year a case does not make), but the fact is that the temperature drop from the past year practically cancels out a century of increases.

No more than anecdotal evidence, to be sure. But now, that evidence has been supplanted by hard scientific fact. All four major global temperature tracking outlets (Hadley, NASA's GISS, UAH, RSS) have released updated data. All show that over the past year, global temperatures have dropped precipitously.

A compiled list of all the sources can be seen here. The total amount of cooling ranges from 0.65C up to 0.75C -- a value large enough to wipe out nearly all the warming recorded over the past 100 years. All in one year's time. For all four sources, it's the single fastest temperature change ever recorded, either up or down.

Scientists quoted in a past DailyTech article link the cooling to reduced solar activity which they claim is a much larger driver of climate change than man-made greenhouse gases. The dramatic cooling seen in just 12 months time seems to bear that out. While the data doesn't itself disprove that carbon dioxide is acting to warm the planet, it does demonstrate clearly that more powerful factors are now cooling it.

So, while the Eskimos look to Al Gore and the global warming junk science, real science is providing evidence that we're about to enter a period of cooling.

UPDATE:
Welcome Hot Air readers! Please also note some more background about living in the Arctic from Thanos at Noblesse Oblige.