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Getting colder, colder

By Gary Harmon
No., it's not the child's play of leading someone to a hidden object. It is the climate and yes, it's changing, no doubt as a result of a cooling phase of the sun. To be sure, the cooling trend is just a blip, but it's a blip in the opposite direction of that which was expected by the computer modeling on which we have come to rely, not unlike throwing chicken bones to determine the better course of action. Those chicken bones, er, computer models, say we are in a phase of human-caused global warming. Same thing with chickens and computers - garbage in, garbage out. It might have helped had the computers known that the Earth is still in an Ice Age from which we have seen a small respite. For now, until the next solar twitch, we, and Al Gore, are getting colder, colder yet...

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