So we got another Global Warming article pointing out that it’s been a decade since we’ve had our “record” high temperatures. You can click the linky for the article if you want. However, I’m just going to point out one lil thing for now.

According to data from the National Space Science and Technology Center in Huntsville, Ala., the global high temperature in 1998 was 0.76 degrees Celsius (1.37 degrees Fahrenheit) above the average for the previous 20 years. So far this year, the high has been 0.42 degrees Celsius (0.76 degrees Fahrenheit), above the 20-year average, clearly cooler than before. [Edited slightly to fix stupid journalism grads who think every single sentence should be its own paragraph.]

Okay, got that? We’re looking at the 20 year average. Now read this excuse as to why this doesn’t disprove Global Warming:

“It’s entirely possible to have a period as long as a decade or two of cooling superimposed on the long-term warming trend,” said David Easterling, chief of scientific services at NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C.

“These short term fluctuations are statistically insignificant (and) entirely due to natural internal variability,” Easterling said in an essay published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters in April. “It’s easy to ‘cherry pick’ a period to reinforce a point of view.”

Huh?

…a period as long as a decade or two

Wouldn’t that be…I dunno, TWENTY YEARS? So the warming trend we’ve experienced over the last 20 years can possibly have as many as twenty years of cooling superimposed on it that should not disprove the warming that those twenty years have had?

Right. And if you go to Graceland and look at the tomb it’s proof that Elvis is still alive. And if you play Backstreet Boys songs backwards, they sound better. Okay, that one could be true.

Just remember, ice melts the fastest when the temperatures are cooling. Don’t believe me? Pour boiling water into a cup. Allow it to start to cool. Then pull out some room-temperature tap water. Put ice in both.

The water that’s cooling melts the ice faster.

This is why the world is doomed.

That and the fact that I’m now writing single-sentence paragraphs, so you can trust my journalistic instincts on this one.