First we had global cooling then we had global warming now we are
having reasonable discussion:

"In early September, I began noticing a string of news stories about
scientists rejecting the orthodoxy on global warming. Actually, it was
more like a string of guest columns and long letters to the editor
since it is hard for sceptical scientists to get published in the
cabal of climate journals now controlled by the Great Sanhedrin of the
environmental movement.

Still, the number of climate change sceptics is growing rapidly.
Because a funny thing is happening to global temperatures -- they're
going down, not up."

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/b...s-go-poof.aspx

Or are we?

Having burdened the internet and several aspects of our lives with
baggage we didn't know much about, it appears we are about to get the
all-clear.

Which might usher in a new order on a magnitude that makes telling the
USAnians it is safe to fly again look profane.

As the financial markets continue to face an uncertain future, the Met
Office has announced an agreement with HSBC to provide weather and
climate-change information to fund managers through the creation of a
Climate Change Research Facilitation Programme.

As the potential impacts of climate change on investment portfolios
are examined by fund managers globally, the demand for highly
specialist research from independent companies has accelerated. The
Met Office, a world leader in weather and climate change research,
will provide high-level independent advice to enable fund managers,
often responsible for pension funds, to reduce the risks from both
natural and man-made climate change on their investments.

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporat...r20081013.html