GLOBAL WARMING TO TAKE THE NEXT TEN YEARS OFF

Oh sure...Now they tell me...AFTER I put the malamutes to sleep.

Average temperatures in areas such as California and France may drop over the next 10 years, influenced by colder flows in the North Atlantic, said a report today by the institution based in Kiel, Germany. Temperatures worldwide may stabilize in the period.

``If we don't experience warming over the next 10 years, it doesn't mean that greenhouse-gas warming is not with us,'' Keenlyside said in an interview. ``There can be natural fluctuations that may mask climate change in the short term.''

``Natural variations over the next 10 years might be heading in the cold direction,'' Wood said. ``If you run the model long enough, eventually global warming will win.''

``We thought a lot about the way to present this because we don't want it to be turned around in the wrong way,'' Keenlyside said. ``I hope it doesn't become a message of Exxon Mobil and other skeptics.''

All this means is that the global warming whackos have a huge hole in their theory and need some way to explain what is going to be a coming cooling period. What's the easiest way to do that, and still keep scaring the hell out of people? Tell them that the global warming monster is just going take a long nap. But when he wakes up, he's going to be pissed about the shaving cream on his nose.
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