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Poland - Global Cooling Or Global Warming For The Polish People?

Warsaw, Poland - 20 December, 2007 While the Polish people have been being showered with the news that global warming will be a problem, record low temperatures across the world are killing people and crops. In spite of what the media and UN promote as a planetary emergency, when they look out their windows in the future they may see a very cold Poland.

The weather history for 2007 indicates that it might not be behaving as Al Gore wants it to. It looks more like it is behaving more like it was predicted to behave in some years ago.

The predictions then were somewhat different than the journalistic predictions of today.

"Science magazine (Dec. 10, 1976) warned of "extensive Northern Hemisphere glaciation." Science Digest (February 1973) reported that "the world's climatologists are agreed" that we must "prepare for the next ice age." The Christian Science Monitor ("Warning: Earth's Climate is Changing Faster Than Even Experts Expect," Aug. 27, 1974) reported that glaciers "have begun to advance," "growing seasons in England and Scandinavia are getting shorter" and "the North Atlantic is cooling down about as fast as an ocean can cool." Newsweek agreed ("The Cooling World," April 28, 1975) that meteorologists "are almost unanimous" that catastrophic famines might result from the global cooling that the New York Times (Sept. 14, 1975) said "may mark the return to another ice age." The Times (May 21, 1975) also said "a major cooling of the climate is widely considered inevitable" now that it is "well established" that the Northern Hemisphere's climate "has been getting cooler since about 1950." " Cooler Heads

Maybe what was said then is more accurate than what is being said today. The Washington Times published a piece that lays out some very telling information.

"Al Gore says global warming is a planetary emergency. It is difficult to see how this can be so when record low temperatures are being set all over the world. In 2007, hundreds of people died, not from global warming, but from cold weather hazards.
Since the mid-19th century, the mean global temperature has increased by 0.7 degrees Celsius. This slight warming is not unusual, and lies well within the range of natural variation. Carbon dioxide continues to build in the atmosphere, but the mean planetary temperature hasn’t increased significantly for nearly nine years. Antarctica is getting colder. Neither the intensity nor the frequency of hurricanes has increased. The 2007 season was the third-quietest since 1966. In 2006 not a single hurricane made landfall in the U.S." http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071219/COMMENTARY/10575140 Year of global cooling

The temperature patterns are remarkable. If you read the entire article in its entirety, there are some stunning examples. Here is just one.

"Last January, $1.42 billion worth of California produce was lost to a devastating five-day freeze. Thousands of agricultural employees were thrown out of work. At the supermarket, citrus prices soared. In the wake of the freeze, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger asked President Bush to issue a disaster declaration for affected counties. A few months earlier, Mr. Schwarzenegger had enthusiastically signed the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, a law designed to cool the climate. California Sen. Barbara Boxer continues to push for similar legislation in the U.S. Senate.
In April, a killing freeze destroyed 95 percent of South Carolina’s peach crop, and 90 percent of North Carolina’s apple harvest. At Charlotte, N.C., a record low temperature of 21 degrees Fahrenheit on April 8 was the coldest ever recorded for April, breaking a record set in 1923. On June 8, Denver recorded a new low of 31 degrees Fahrenheit. Denver’s temperature records extend back to 1872." http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071219/COMMENTARY/10575140 Year of global cooling

The idea that Global warming is a problem provides many great ways to make money, make political points and gain competitive advantages. But to the economies of Europe, it may have some disadvantages.

In a recently published article, Former New York Ed Koch slams Al Gore and points out how the idea of Global Warming is an economic tool being used against Europe and the US by developing countries in an articled called, Does Gore Know What He's Talking About? Koch points out:

"The argument offered by China, India and other developing countries is clear and direct. Said Lu Xuedu, the deputy director general of the Chinese Office of Global Environmental Affairs, "You cannot tell people who are struggling to earn enough to eat that they need to reduce their emissions." China's intent is to put the United States and Europe in a difficult economic position where standards of living will be reduced until developing countries rise to the standard of the U.S. At that point the developing countries will be required to reduce their emissions."

With countries, powerful business interests and journalists behind selling global warming as fact, Polish politicians will be under pressure to do something politically correct as the people are fed a continual stream of warnings.

If they look at the data, they may make a reasoned decision.

But then they might just take the simple approach being taken by Norway - just pollute and put tax zloty in some global warming dependent company's coffers. Norway's emissions soar

And then look out the window to see if it is getting warmer or colder.

As it stands now, if 2007 is indicative of the future, it is likely to get colder.