Ice Age on the way!

Solar activity remains unusually low - not a good sign for the global warming crowd.

THE scariest photo I have seen on the internet is www.spaceweather.com, where you will find a real-time image of the sun from the Solar and Heliospheric observatory, located in deep space at the equilibrium point between solar and terrestrial gravity.

What is scary about the picture is that there is only one tiny sunspot. Disconcerting as it may be to true believers in global warming, the average temperature on Earth has remained steady or slowly declined during the past decade, despite the continued increase in the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide, and now the global temperature is falling precipitously.

All four agencies that track Earth's temperature (the Hadley Climate Research Unit in Britain, the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, the Christy group at the University of Alabama, and Remote Sensing Systems Inc in California) report that it cooled by about 0.7C in 2007. This is the fastest temperature change in the instrumental record and it puts us back where we were in 1930. If the temperature does not soon recover, we will have to conclude that global warming is over.

Why is it that when things go well in Iraq the memory of the Democrat party becomes shorter?

Once, benchmarks were all the rage. Strangely, when they are met by the Iraqis and Gen. Peatrus, the Democrat group memory becomes very very foggy.

The last time General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker reported to Congress on the state of the Iraq war, "benchmarks" were all the rage. Congress had established 18 criteria in early 2007 both to pressure the Iraqis and to keep score on their progress. And in September, Congress faulted the Iraqi government for failing to meet many of those measures. Concocting a checklist of laws and actions that would lead to national reconciliation in Iraq was always a fool's errand and misunderstood the complexity of the situation. But having laid down this marker, Congress would want to hear an update, surely. Not so. The word "benchmarks" was scarcely heard last week when Petraeus and Crocker reappeared before Congress. Crocker testified that the Iraqis have actually met about two-thirds of the benchmarks, including four or five of the six key legislative benchmarks and all of the benchmarks measuring their contribution to their own security. In reply, the congressmen who insisted on legislating these benchmarks now say benchmarks are a poor way to measure progress in Iraq.

Muslim Male Swimming only debuts in Britain

While Brits seem to bury their heads in the sand, the Muslim conquest continues unabated.

This morning, my son asked to go swimming at 10 am. As he was going to play with a friend at 11.30, I agree to take him early. I checked the Pool Programme online at the Clissold Leisure Centre website, and the opening times. Apparently, the pool was open, and no special programmes were being run. So, off we trundled.

When I arrived at the pool, I was told that we could not swim in it until 10.45. The reason is that it was being used for "Muslim Male Swimming". This is apparently so, every Sunday morning.

BHO's Spiritual Advisor pokes his mouth ouf of retirement.

Without rehashing BHO selection process of a minister and a spiritual advisor for his presidential assent, it would seem that Rev. Wright is once again attempting to prove that his is a bigoted, racist and hateful preacher - even when giving the eulogy of a dead friend.

The Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., former pastor of Barack Obama’s Trinity United Church of Christ, has kept a low profile since some of his sermons landed him in the middle of a political firestorm.

And while Wright made no mention of terrorism, he did revisit the topic of America’s mistreatment of blacks, saying America’s founding fathers “planted slavery and white supremacy in the DNA of this republic,” and adding that Thomas Jefferson wrote, “ ‘God would punish America for the sin of slavery.’ I guess that makes Thomas Jefferson unpatriotic,” he said to the cheers of the congregation.

I'd like to think this is satire.

I will assume this is a satirical piece, but it rang a bell for me. BHO is such an overt elitist it fits like a finely made glove.

For the past two days Obama has taken a beating by the Clinton campaign for remarks he made in San Francisco, in which he said many Americans who have lost jobs have "gotten bitter and cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or antitrade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."

"It's been a very difficult time for him," said a friend from Harvard Law School who said he and Obama used to enjoy riding the Boston subway while wearing their Harvard sweatshirts just to make the other passengers feel inferior. "I called him up and reminded him that he went to the most prestigious law school in the world, has written two best-sellers, is richer than 99 percent of Americans, and has a vocabulary that most Ivy League literature professors would envy, and that made him feel a lot better."

News from the best source in Iraq - Michael Yon

No journalist has spent more time in the field than Michael Yon. Let him bring you up to date.

It is said that generals always fight the last war. But when David Petraeus came to town it was senators – on both sides of the aisle – who battled over the Iraq war of 2004-2006. That war has little in common with the war we are fighting today.

I may well have spent more time embedded with combat units in Iraq than any other journalist alive. I have seen this war – and our part in it – at its brutal worst. And I say the transformation over the last 14 months is little short of miraculous.

The change goes far beyond the statistical decline in casualties or incidents of violence. A young Iraqi translator, wounded in battle and fearing death, asked an American commander to bury his heart in America. Iraqi special forces units took to the streets to track down terrorists who killed American soldiers. The U.S. military is the most respected institution in Iraq, and many Iraqi boys dream of becoming American soldiers. Yes, young Iraqi boys know about "GoArmy.com."

Obama explains the backwardness of small town America.

Ah, now I get it, I'm a gun lovin', anti-immigrant, anti-trade small town hick. Geezz, now that I know this I really gotta vote for the "B"-man so he can properly adjust my attitude.

when he spoke to a group of his wealthier Golden State backers at a San Francisco fund-raiser last Sunday, Barack Obama took a shot at explaining the yawning cultural gap that separates a Turkeyfoot from a Marin County. "You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them," Obama said. "And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."

An article about Bush's failure to stop the Iranian Nuclear Program

Charles Krauthammer's article clearly shows the failure of the US policy, directed by the Bush administration, of deferring to the UN, the EU and leftist Democrat party. Iran has made stunning gains towards achieving nuclear weapons. This failure will have profound repercussions on the power structure of the Mideast.

On Tuesday, Iran announced it was installing 6,000 more centrifuges -- they produce enriched uranium, the key ingredient of a nuclear weapon -- in addition to the 3,000 already operating. The world yawned.

It is time to admit the truth: The Bush administration's attempt to halt Iran's nuclear program has failed. Utterly. The latest round of U.N. Security Council sanctions, which took a year to achieve, is comically weak. It represents the end of the sanctions road.

Clear evidence has also been found regarding Iran's development of a ballistic missile capable of reaching European targets.

The secret site where Iran is suspected of developing long-range ballistic missiles capable of reaching targets in Europe has been uncovered by new satellite photographs.

The imagery has pinpointed the facility from where the Iranians launched their Kavoshgar 1 “research rocket” on February 4, claiming that it was in connection with their space programme.

Analysis of the photographs taken by the Digital Globe QuickBird satellite four days after the launch has revealed a number of intriguing features that indicate to experts that it is the same site where Iran is focusing its efforts on developing a ballistic missile with a range of about 6,000km (4,000 miles).

Yet another article about the myth of Global Warming

Another article pointing to new evidence that there has been no Global Warming for the past 10 years and that the earth is showing a cooling trend.

Last Monday - on ABC Radio National, of all places - there was a tipping point of a different kind in the debate on climate change. It was a remarkable interview involving the co-host of Counterpoint, Michael Duffy and Jennifer Marohasy, a biologist and senior fellow of Melbourne-based think tank the Institute of Public Affairs. Anyone in public life who takes a position on the greenhouse gas hypothesis will ignore it at their peril.

Duffy asked Marohasy: "Is the Earth stillwarming?"

She replied: "No, actually, there has been cooling, if you take 1998 as your point of reference. If you take 2002 as your point of reference, then temperatures have plateaued. This is certainly not what you'd expect if carbon dioxide is driving temperature because carbon dioxide levels have been increasing but temperatures have actually been coming down over the last 10 years."

Rather than fighting Islamofacists for 100 years, what if we just quit?

Much is being said about how long we may be at war with militant Islam. Why not just quit?

A growing number of Democrats have falsely accused Sen. John McCain of “promising” 100 years of war in Iraq. In fact, McCain’s point was that the presence of American forces promotes stability. That’s been the case in Europe and Asia, where Americans have been stationed for more than half a century. It’s been true in the Balkans since the 1990s, when President Clinton sent troops there. America’s military plays a beneficial role when it eliminates America’s enemies; it does so also when it stays on to prevent those enemies from reemerging.

But there is a hard truth that McCain did not state: A hundred years from now, Americans might still be fighting militant Islamists in Iraq and other places. What could be worse than that? A hundred years from now, America and the West could have been defeated by militant Islamists.

UN Official wants neo-cons investigated for their participation in the 9/11 attacks

It would be funny if not so pathetic. It is long past time to leave this organization and have it hosted by some other country.

A new UN Human Rights Council official assigned to monitor Israel is calling for an official commission to study the role neoconservatives may have played in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

Brits hand their lives to the heart of a terrorist.

I am at a loss for words. The British people should just all submit and begin their lives as slaves.

One of the world's most dangerous terror suspects was last night preparing for a life on benefits in Britain after judges ruled that his deportation would breach human rights law.

Abu Qatada, dubbed Osama Bin Laden's "truly dangerous" ambassador in Europe, could be released from jail within months following the Court of Appeal verdict.

Yesterday's decision has left Britain's anti-terror laws in tatters. It means the Jordanian father of five - who has been linked to a string of global terror conspiracies and is held in a high security prison under immigration powers - can expect to receive £1,000 a month in handouts.

Perhaps the most important blog regarding Iraq.

An outstanding resource for determining the true status of our efforts in Iraq.

Non Muslim children are dogs - well of course they are!

The Netherlands continue to be introduced to the new reality of Europe, non-muslims - children included - are simply dogs. Of course Islam poses no threat - move on, move on, nothing to see here.

THE HAGUE, 09/04/08 - A primary school in Amsterdam wished to provide its pupils with an understanding for other cultures. But during a visit to a mosque, the children were told they were dogs.

No - it's not OK to state the truth about illegals in our country.

A 13 year old student is beaten by classmates for making a sign for class saying the illegal immigration is bad for our country. The Reconquista is well underway in the youth of the southwest.

A teenager who took a sign reading "If you love our nation, stop illegal immigration" to school said she was hurt after being swarmed by angry classmates, and administrators said Tuesday they have suspended three students involved in the scuffle.

Why should I be required to give up my piece of the pie???

Marxism on the march in the form of Michelle.

"The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more."

So let me get this straight. I bust my ass for 25 years, pay my own way through school, work ridiculous hours and because I become financially successful I now must understand that I need to give up more of my "piece of the pie'?? The new Marxist couple continue to be on the march.

Hillary fired for unethical behavior??? Color me shocked!

She is as much a pathalogical liar as her husband, a match made in . . . well . . . somewhere.

Details of Hillary Clinton's firing from the House Judiciary Committee staff for unethical behavior as she helped prepare articles of impeachment against Richard Nixon have been confirmed by the panel's chief Republican counsel.

The Syria raid - much more than meets the eye.

On September 6th 2007 Israel launched a very successful air strike against a North Korean built nuclear facility in Syria. What stunned me was the level of silence in the MSM. This was Israel launching a very successful air strike on a neighbor and an enemy with virtually nothing being said.

Congress is demanding that the Bush administration fess up and tell them what really happened. I don't think the Democrats will be happy with the testimony. Seems the facility was certainly capable of leading to nuclear weapons for Syria. The report to Congress will also clearly make the cast that prior to our invasion Saddam moved his WMDs to Syria.

Two articles for your consideration.

Israel Destroys a Syrian Nuclear Plant

Saddam's WMDs moved to Syria prior to the war

An interesting Global Warming site .

The myth of Global Warming is slowly crumbling. The "Science and Public Policy Institute" has two articles that I found particularly Interesting.


"35 Inconvenient Truths - The errors in Al Gore’s movie" takes a hard look at a number of myths enshrined in Gore's movie. It lays to waste the most popular of them.

"Global Warming Profiteers" presents clear evidence that there has been no recorded increase in global temperatures for the last decade. In fact, for the past 7 years temperatures have been declining with the past year seeing the largest annual temperature drop since 1880.

Global Warming has Stopped is a good summary article that brings together a number of myths and debunks them as well.

Global warming is a myth that can't die too soon in my humble opinion.

The march towards nuclear weapons continues in Iran

Iran continues its march towards nuclear weapons. Europe's efforts to egnage Iran and to change their direction on the aquisition of nuclear weapons is falling terribly short.

Iran Begins Installing More Centrifuges

TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran has begun installing 6,000 new centrifuges at its uranium enrichment plant in Natanz, state television quoted President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as saying Tuesday.

Iran already has about 3,000 centrifuges operating in Natanz, and the new announcement is seen as a show of defiance of international demands to halt a nuclear program the United States and its allies say is aimed at building nuclear weapons.

"The president announced the start of the phase of installing 6,000 new centrifuges in Natanz," state television reported.

Debbie Schlussel: EXCLUSIVE - Obama's Nation of Islam Staffers, Edward Said & "Inflexible Jews" Causing Mid-East Conflict: An Obama Insider Reveals th

Little by little, the real Barak peeks out of the cloud of deception.

These people are coming to KILL YOU! Pay attention!

Over and over Hill and BHO are ready to "end the war". Perhaps they should counsult with our enemies first.

Iran joined militias in battle for Basra

Color me shocked!!

IRANIAN forces were involved in the recent battle for Basra, General David Petraeus, the US commander in Iraq, is expected to tell Congress this week.

Military and intelligence sources believe Iranians were operating at a tactical command level with the Shi’ite militias fighting Iraqi security forces; some were directing operations on the ground, they think.

One more "canary in the coal mine" about Entitlements

Canaries in mines are old tools used to tell miners when they are in danger. Ignore them to your peril. Unfortunately, when it comes to Entitlement spending, there are no little yellow birds chirping. Yet, warnings abound about our coming peril. Here is another one.

THE FEDERAL budget is on an autopilot course to ruin. Spending on the three big entitlement programs -- Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid -- grows automatically, consuming a large and growing share of the budget with benefits that flow mostly to the elderly. Meantime, there is almost no public discussion about the trade-offs involved: Would the money be better spent on education, homeland security, defense or infrastructure? Even before the baby boomers retire, more than four dollars out of every ten go to these programs; if health-care spending increases at the current rate, within 40 years Medicare and Medicaid alone will amount to as large a share of the economy as the entire federal budget comprises today.

Absent intervention, the country faces three unpalatable scenarios: running dangerously high deficits, squeezing spending on other vital needs or raising taxes to levels that could threaten economic growth.

The biofuels scam continues to take its toll

There's a price to pay for this march towards biofuels. Both in loss of food and environmental rape. Can we drill for oil yet??

From his Cessna a mile above the southern Amazon, John Carter looks down on the destruction of the world's greatest ecological jewel. He watches men converting rain forest into cattle pastures and soybean fields with bulldozers and chains. He sees fires wiping out such gigantic swaths of jungle that scientists now debate the "savannization" of the Amazon. Brazil just announced that deforestation is on track to double this year; Carter, a Texas cowboy with all the subtlety of a chainsaw, says it's going to get worse fast. "It gives me goose bumps," says Carter, who founded a nonprofit to promote sustainable ranching on the Amazon frontier. "It's like witnessing a rape."

The Islamist threat to Europe - a video worth watching.

Many Liberals and Europeans seem to totally discount the threat Islamofacists pose to Europe. Perhaps if they heard it in the words of the Islamofacists themselves??

Unintended Consequences.

You move land use from the production of food to the production of fuel. A food shortage follows. Why is that so hard to understand??

The UN secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon, has called for a comprehensive review of the policy on biofuels as a crisis in global food prices - partly caused by the increasing use of crops for energy generation - threatens to trigger global instability.

"We need to be concerned about the possibility of taking land or replacing arable land because of these biofuels," Ban told the Guardian in Bucharest while attending this week's Nato summit. But he added: "While I am very much conscious and aware of these problems, at the same time you need to constantly look at having creative sources of energy, including biofuels. Therefore, at this time, just criticising biofuel may not be a good solution. I would urge we need to address these issues in a comprehensive manner."

OK, so now we need a policy to fix an old policy that was the result of a faulty global warming policy. Just what did these folks think would happye??

Have we forgotten why we went into Iraq?

As anyone can see by my posts, I have a rather big mouth and have no problem sharing my opinions with anyone who will listen as well as those who would rather not. Sometimes I share these in our local paper via letters to the editor. A post towards the end of March remembering that gassing of the Kurds in 1988 was one such letter.

At times, local folks respond with their thoughts on my letters and I usually just read them, listen to what they say and let it go. However, recently a gentleman responded by comparing America to Nazi Germany, deriding our decision to invade Iraq and declared the for the good of the troops and for their honor we should leave Iraq immediately. It is obvious that he had forgotten many events that had happened, starting in August 1990, that have brought us to today. I took some time to remind him.

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A bit of truth about the Iraq War

As anyone can clearly see in my letters to the editor, I am a person of strong opinion. My purpose for sharing my thoughts is simply to spark debate in the community and to get folks to think about the many issues facing our nation, especially in an election year.

And, usually, I simply read the responses or talk to folks who come up to me and chat about something I have written. Seldom do I feel any need to respond directly to a fellow letter writer. In Mr. Nelson’s case however, I feel the need make an exception.

Mr. Nelson seems to have conveniently forgotten the numerous events leading up to our invasion of Iraq in March 2003. Perhaps he should revisit the month of August 1990 when Saddam seized Kuwait. This was a brutal and unprovoked attack with the sole intent of subjugating the Kuwaiti people and stealing their resources. To let this stand would have thrown the entire region into chaos and the US led a global coalition to eject Saddam.

The first Gulf War ended in February 1991 and a number of expectations were placed on Saddam. A major condition was his elimination of existing WMDs and their manufacturing capabilities. As much as Mr. Nelson would like to ignore Saddam’s WMD program, UN documents describe the discovery and destruction of thousands of rounds of chemical weapons including sarin and mustard gas. UN reviews of Iraqi manufacturing records clearly found large discrepancies between the number of rounds found or accounted for and the number manufactured, something Saddam refused to address right up to his ejection of all UN inspectors in 1998. Large stores of raw nuclear product were also found after our 2003 invasion with the US removing over 500 tons of yellowcake and 2400 pounds of lightly enriched uranium. Saddam clearly had existing stores of WMDs. Perhaps a better question to ask would be “Where did they go?” during our 16 month run up to our invasion.

An additional condition of our cease fire with Saddam was that he was to leave the Kurds of the North and the salt-marsh Arabs of the south in peace. This he clearly ignored with a broad purge of the salt-marsh Arabs resulting in an estimated 100,000 dead – a direct result of our broken promise to protect them after Gulf War I. As a result we established no-fly zones in both the Kurd north and the south. For over 10 years US forces enforced these restrictions including the Air Guard units of Iowa.

During the period from February 1991 to March 2003, Saddam broke or ignored 17 UN resolutions. Perhaps Mr. Nelson would care to remember the final “straw”, Saddam’s refusal to accept the conditions of UN resolution 1441. This document came after nearly a year of evaluation, diplomatic efforts and pleas on the part of many countries that Saddam reinstate the inspectors he had ejected in 1998, allow “complete and unfettered access” to all facilities and to provide a full accounting of all WMDs. Perhaps he could review the reports to the Security Council by Hans Blix in December 2002 and early March 2003 detailing Saddam’s utter failure to address any of the UN’s concerns. UN 1441 passed the Security Council unanimously with all 15 members voting in favor of the resolution which set a clear deadline of 45 days to submit.

As for the congress’s participation in this, their Authorization of Use of Force of October 2002 passed both the House and Senate overwhelmingly. The United States and the President clearly filled all the squares for our entry into Iraq in March 2003 as much as Mr. Nelson would like to ignore that fact. The one person that could have stopped it was the same person who started it – Saddam - by simply bending to the will of the world.

My next disagreement with Mr. Nelson is the comparison of our country and our military to that of the German Wehrmacht of WWII. I have had the distinct honor to listen to WWII vets during some of our VFW meetings and through participating with them on panels at our local high school on Veterans Day. To listen to one vet’s description of freeing an extermination camp in Europe and another’s description of walking through one of the nuclear craters in Japan is a truly humbling experience. I suspect they may not see the US and the US military of March 2003 in the same light as Mr. Nelson. As an American and a 21 year veteran, I find his comparison distasteful to say the very least. In fact in a rather odd twist in Mr. Nelson’s article while describing Saddam’s Baathist regime as vicious he failed to note that it was founded in 1940 on the principles of the Nazi party. In fact, Saddam’s uncle led a revolt against British forces in Iraq in 1941 and requested military support from Germany. Perhaps Saddam would fit the Nazi mold better than our US forces.

As for Iraq’s threat to the US, I believe that during the run up to the March 2003 invasion, the only politician to call Iraq an “imminent threat” was John D. Rockefeller IV, Democrat of West Virginia. President Bush’s primary contention was clearly stated as Saddam’s continued 10 year rejection of the demands and expectations of the UN and the Security Council. But, to ignore Saddam’s support of suicide bombers in the Mideast at the rate of $25,000 per bombing, to ignore his training bases, to ignore his support for terrorists on the run including Abu Nidal who was responsible for hundreds of deaths throughout Europe is simply wrong. These people and organizations clearly were a threat to the civilized world including Americans.

As for Saddam’s participation in 9/11, I don’t believe the Bush administration ever said such a thing. However, a review of the 9/11 report clearly shows Saddam provided some level of logistical support and training and that Muhammad Atta met with Iraqi security people in Prague prior to the attacks.

Finally, as for delivering the Iraqi people into a “sheer hell of madness and mayhem”, perhaps Mr. Nelson should spend a bit of time researching the Iraq of Saddam. According to the Documental Centre for Human Rights Saddam executed over 600,000 people. This does not include those killed in his various purges of the Kurds and salt-water Arabs nor does it include the 800,000 Iraqi and Iranian soldiers killed in the Iraq/Iran war. While the loss of a single life is a tragedy, the website iraqbodycount.org estimates that in our 5 years in Iraq an estimated 82,000 to 90,000 civilians have been killed. The vast majority of these were not killed by US soldiers, but by insurgents intent on shattering Iraq. Regardless, the Iraqi people are clearly under less threat today than during the reign of Saddam.

And, as for the health of the country, a few facts: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) estimates 2008 will see a 7 percent growth in their economy. Iraq has paid their entire $470 million debt to the IMF and they were approved for a $720 million dollar line of credit in December. More than 2 million barrels of oil are being pumped every day, exceeding pre-war levels. Total inflation has fallen by 60 percent to a 5 percent level. Over 30,000 businesses have opened in the last 2 years. Cell phones and satellite dishes cover a landscape where an information vacuum once existed. Blogs by Iraqi people fill the internet with their hopes, dreams and their thanks. Political progress, while slow, is steady. Agreements have been struck regarding oil sharing, regional elections, and reinstatement of former Baathist members to name just a few.

But, to paint Iraq with the broad brush of “sheer hell of madness and mayhem” shows a tremendous lack of respect of the Iraqi people and of our military forces who risk their lives every day to give these folks a chance for the peace and freedom everyone wants for themselves and their children.

So Mr. Nelson, I respectfully disagree. Iraq is not near the quagmire so many Democrats and liberals wish it was. And the best way to honor our soldiers is by standing by them and letting them finish what we as a nation asked them to embark upon rather that looking at them and saying that their sacrifices, their family’s sacrifices, the sacrifices of those who have lost their lives or have been wounded have been for naught.

China rats our Iran's nuclear program.

Imagine that, Iran does seem to have a nuclear weapons development program - color me suprised!!

China has betrayed one its closest allies by providing the United Nationswith intelligence on Iran's efforts to acquire nuclear technology, diplomats have revealed.

Concern over Tehran's secretive research programme has increased in recent weeks after officials at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN's nuclear watchdog, discovered that Iran had obtained information on how to manufacture nuclear-armed weapons.

The world needs MORE CO2, Yep, that's what I said - - MORE!!

Imagine that, to combat rapid global cooling due to reduced solar output, the world needs to increase the level of CO2 in the atmosphere - yep, INCREASE IT! Imagine that.

"In a few short years, we will have a reversal of the warming of the 20th century," Archibald warned, according to CargoNews Asia. "There will be significant cooling very soon. Our generation has known a warm, giving sun, but the new generation will suffer a sun that is less giving, and the earth will be less fruitful. Carbon dioxide is not even a little bit bad – it's wholly beneficial."