The End of the Fourth Interglacial Period?

I can't help myself. Just too much good stuff coming in too fast.

The Canadian National Post (gotta love those Canadians, not giving in to the AGW cultists like their "superior" brethren to the immediate south) has an article about the fact that the current Northern Hemisphere snow cover is at its greatest extent since 1966. It goes on to discuss new record low temperature readings and snowfall amounts in various parts of the world this winter. It mentions the apparent restoration of the Arctic ice cap (though they only started measuring it in 1972). Then a new theory accounting for the ice melt is reviewed, with the implication that such melting may be following a 40 year cycle. (And remember, the records started only in 1972, which is just 36 years ago.) It concludes with a brief mention of sunspot inactivity.

So the glaciers are reforming. Another Ice Age is on its way.

Not!

We are just seeing another side of the cycle. You know, the cycle where things, like for example temperature, go up, and then they go down.

If one were to assume that the downs indicate the coming of an ice age, you would be ridiculed. But when the cultists assume that the ups indicate the coming of a runaway global barbecue ("Earth on a spit!"), they are merely being prudent when they demand we implement draconian measures to try to prevent it (especially when such measures won't even slow it down).

Sounds like somebody believes in double standards here.

But then, the liberal left has always believed in double standards, one set for themselves and another for everybody else.

Give me a break.