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Al Gore’s global warming “the sky is falling” tour of the world, to include some not-deserved awards, is being disputed … again.

Seems we might be up for a bit of cooling instead!  Of course those that have packed on their winter weight for this event should have no problems. 

SUNSPOT activity has not resumed up after hitting an 11-year low in March last year, raising fears that – far from warming – the globe is about to return to an Ice Age.

Astronaut and geophysicist Phil Chapman, the first Australian to become an astronaut with NASA, said pictures from the US Solar and Heliospheric Observatory showed no spots on the sun.

He said the world cooled quickly between January last year and January this year, by about 0.7C.

“This is the fastest temperature change in the instrumental record, and it puts us back to where we were in 1930,” Dr Chapman writes in The Australian today.

“If the temperature does not soon recover, we will have to conclude that global warming is over.”

via news.com.au, “‘Forget global warming, prepare for Ice Age’”

(snort)