Global Warming? I Think Not

I have a feeling that the idea of Global Warming is not being fully embraced in Colorado, who just had their third snow storm in as many weeks. Granted, a lot of areas of the country are enjoying unseasonably warm temperatures for January (we say some golfers enjoying the links outside Madison, WI yesterday), but is a couple of weeks of warm weather something to despair or rejoice?

I am not holding my breath on Minnesota becoming the next Arizona. Yes, we did break a high temp record this week, but let's face it, the old temperature was set back in the late 1800's. As this article in the Canadian Free Press says

We should listen most to scientists who use real data to try to understand
what nature is actually telling us about the causes and extent of global
climate change. In this relatively small community, there is no consensus,
despite what Gore and others would suggest.
Here is a small sample of
the side of the debate we almost never hear:
Appearing before the Commons
Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development last year, Carleton
University paleoclimatologist Professor Tim Patterson testified, "There is no meaningful correlation between CO2 levels and Earth's temperature over this [geologic] time frame. In fact, when CO2 levels were over ten times higher than they are now, about 450 million years ago, the planet was in the depths of the absolute coldest period in the last half billion years." Patterson asked the committee, "On the basis of this evidence, how could anyone still believe that the recent relatively small increase in CO2 levels would be the major cause of the past century's modest warming?" Patterson concluded his testimony by explaining what his research and "hundreds of other studies" reveal: on all time
scales, there is very good correlation between Earth's temperature and
natural celestial phenomena such changes in the brightness of the Sun.

Let's get back to enjoying the warm weather as the blessing it is.