Update: A study by the CEI says that temperature fluctuations are mostly due to non-human forces.  The report was suppressed by the EPA, which, like many government programs, needs to justify its own existence by pretending problems are worse than they really are.  The EPA prefers to rely on reports that come from different sources, like the U.N., which didn’t want to include recent data in the IPCC report.

Check out the CEI report (PDF form) here.  It notes that there is “no net warming” in the 21st Century despite an increase in CO2 levels, and that saying there’s been a decline in temperature would be more accurate.

Now, back to the original post….

Hey, good news!  The Earth isn’t warming anymore.  Go home, tree hugging, Earth-worshipping, cap-and-taxing liberals.   That’s right!  Global warming is now a thing of the past, like the threat of AIDS to western heterosexuals.

Since the Earth isn’t warming anymore – global warming “science” was considered so ironclad that people ignored how wrong the alarmists were in the 1970’s – the official term seems to have changed to “climate change.”

Here in Wisconsin, climate change is very alarming.  In fact, since January 1st of just this year, I’ve noticed that the climate has gone from frigid and snowy to warm and sunny – heck, even the days are getting longer!

No, Dan.  They’re talking about climate change on a longer point of view.  You know; year to year?  Decade to decade?

It’s amazing to me that the VAST SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS that was considered so infallible in recent years can essentially change its mind from “the Earth is warming; we need to stop pumping CO2″ to “well, maybe the Earth isn’t warming but the climate is changing!” without losing many followers of Gaea.

Oh, wait.  That’s not amazing to me at all.

That’s because this whole “climate change” thing has been hooey from the start.  A lot of countries are seeing political shifts that reflects a new mindset – they generally agree with my “hooey” theory – and are starting to come to their senses.

You see, since 2001, temperatures on a global have remained pretty steady, despite our continual pumping of CO2 into the atmosphere – which is supposed to drive temperatures up according to VAST SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS. Hey, a quick reminder:  guess what the chief “greenhouse gas” on Venus is.  It’s water vapor.  (Also known as BLEEPING STEAM.)  Back in the day, CO2 was considered good for the atmosphere – plants need it for a little thing called photosynthesis.  Today, it’s considered a pollutant.  I really, sincerely hope liberals don’t start a cap-and-tax initiative for steam.

Says Kimberly Strassel in the Wall Street Journal:

The number of skeptics, far from shrinking, is swelling. Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe now counts more than 700 scientists who disagree with the U.N. — 13 times the number who authored the U.N.’s 2007 climate summary for policymakers. Joanne Simpson, the world’s first woman to receive a Ph.D. in meteorology, expressed relief upon her retirement last year that she was finally free to speak “frankly” of her nonbelief. Dr. Kiminori Itoh, a Japanese environmental physical chemist who contributed to a U.N. climate report, dubs man-made warming “the worst scientific scandal in history.” Norway’s Ivar Giaever, Nobel Prize winner for physics, decries it as the “new religion.” A group of 54 noted physicists, led by Princeton’s Will Happer, is demanding the American Physical Society revise its position that the science is settled. (Both Nature and Science magazines have refused to run the physicists’ open letter.)

The collapse of the “consensus” has been driven by reality. The inconvenient truth is that the earth’s temperatures have flat-lined since 2001, despite growing concentrations of C02. Peer-reviewed research has debunked doomsday scenarios about the polar ice caps, hurricanes, malaria, extinctions, rising oceans. A global financial crisis has politicians taking a harder look at the science that would require them to hamstring their economies to rein in carbon.

Now, we’re seeing former global warming believers become believers in “climate change.” Well, it’s hard to argue with climate change, considering the climate changes all the time and was changing before humans even arrived on the scene.  But why the name change?  If the name change is necessary because they truly believe people are effecting the climate, but that they were wrong about the Earth warming, then why not simply admit that “global warming” was a horrible, horrible name for it?

VAST SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS told us the globe was warming.  It didn’t take long for us to realize that was wrong.

What else do they have wrong?