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According to the English edition of Pravda, the Earth is on the brink of a new Ice Age. According to compiled data, we are living at the end of a 12,000 year warming period, and the Earth will now begin to cool down and return to Ice Age conditions for the next 100,000 years.

The theory of ‘anthropogenic (man-made) global warming’, or AGW took a swift kick in the butt this past year as temperatures around the globa fell, bringing us one of the colder winters in a while:

The central piece of evidence that is cited in support of the AGW theory is the famous ‘hockey stick’ graph which was presented by Al Gore in his 2006 film “An Inconvenient Truth.” The ‘hockey stick’ graph shows an acute upward spike in global temperatures which began during the 1970s and continued through the winter of 2006/07. However, this warming trend was interrupted when the winter of 2007/8 delivered the deepest snow cover to the Northern Hemisphere since 1966 and the coldest temperatures since 2001. It now appears that the current Northern Hemisphere winter of 2008/09 will probably equal or surpass the winter of 2007/08 for both snow depth and cold temperatures.

The main flaw in the AGW theory is that its proponents focus on evidence from only the past one thousand years at most, while ignoring the evidence from the past million years — evidence which is essential for a true understanding of climatology. The data from paleoclimatology provides us with an alternative and more credible explanation for the recent global temperature spike, based on the natural cycle of Ice Age maximums and interglacials.

Read the 3-page article here. Sorry, Al.

Take it or leave it.