A few years back I recall seeing not one but TWO Democrat congresscritters – in series – criticize the Bush Admin’s economic predictions by saying “Look, it’s April and it snowed in Washington DC today. We can’t even predict the weather accurately and the Administration claims it can predict the economy.”

And these are the very same people who insist that the Global Warming climate models are accurate 50 or 100 years out.

Navytech: We have been observing the Sun scientifically for over 100 years and in a less rigorous manner for some thousands of years before that. And the latest solar observations show that the currents
on the Sun that predict future sunspot activity are at the LOWEST LEVEL ever recorded. By 2020 we will be at a solar minimum that could well be below anything ever seen before. The Sun is throttling back. But never fear, that is one reason why they are now calling it Climate Change rather than Global Warming. So the immense bureacracy they want to create will be able to cover all the options.

The worrisome thing is, though, that the default position is now one to accept Global Warming to some degree. Even the people who think it is all just a big scam seem to have accepted that we will have to undertake at least some token measures.

It’s like someone said back in the 80′s. If the Democrats established a position that required the US Capitol to be burned down, the Republicans would counter-propose that the task be done in a series of small fires rather than one big one.