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Global warming is offically OVER 
Old Farmer's Almanac suggests decades of global cooling ahead
By DAVID TIRRELL-WYSOCKI, Associated Press
Last update: September 10, 2008 - 10:56 AM
DUBLIN, N.H. -- The Old Farmer's Almanac is going further out on a limb than usual this year, not only forecasting a cooler winter, but looking ahead decades to suggest we are in for global cooling, not warming.
Based on the same time-honored, complex calculations it uses to predict weather, the Almanac hit the newsstands Tuesday saying a study of solar activity and corresponding records on ocean temperatures and climate point to a cooler, not warmer, climate, for perhaps the next half century.
"We at the Almanac are among those who believe that sunspot cycles and their effects on oceans correlate with climate changes," writes meteorologist and climatologist Joseph D'Aleo. "Studying these and other factor suggests that cold, not warm, climate may be our future."
It remains to be seen, said Editor-in-Chief Jud Hale, whether the human impact on global temperatures will cancel out or override any cooling trend.
"We say that if human beings were not contributing to global warming, it would become real cold in the next 50 years," Hale said.
Old Farmer's Almanac suggests decades of global cooling ahead
By DAVID TIRRELL-WYSOCKI, Associated Press
Last update: September 10, 2008 - 10:56 AM
DUBLIN, N.H. -- The Old Farmer's Almanac is going further out on a limb than usual this year, not only forecasting a cooler winter, but looking ahead decades to suggest we are in for global cooling, not warming.
Based on the same time-honored, complex calculations it uses to predict weather, the Almanac hit the newsstands Tuesday saying a study of solar activity and corresponding records on ocean temperatures and climate point to a cooler, not warmer, climate, for perhaps the next half century.
"We at the Almanac are among those who believe that sunspot cycles and their effects on oceans correlate with climate changes," writes meteorologist and climatologist Joseph D'Aleo. "Studying these and other factor suggests that cold, not warm, climate may be our future."
It remains to be seen, said Editor-in-Chief Jud Hale, whether the human impact on global temperatures will cancel out or override any cooling trend.
"We say that if human beings were not contributing to global warming, it would become real cold in the next 50 years," Hale said.
I totally agree with them on the whole "sun spot" thing! I've talked to a few folks that ride in the southern hemisphere in our summer and they said thier winter has been very plentiful. "The worst we can recall having in many many years". I don't know about you but that kinda excites me!!
