The “impending ice age” story is an amusing diversion for those of us non-members of the global apocalypse club. But I highly recommend this link http://motls.blogspot.com/2006/06/nas-schizofrenic-climate-report.html to the same blogger Roger cited above, regarding the recent release of the National Academy of Sciences report on “surface temperature reconstructions” over the last 2,000 years. This important document, which is of course being grossly misreported (or not reported at all) as usual in the MSM, essentially destroys the claim that there is “scientific consensus” about global warming.

According to the report (and the summary of findings in the executive summary, which you can easily access through the above link, is only 5 pages) the only real “consensus” is that temperatures right now are higher than they have been for about 4 centuries, as opposed to the several millenia claimed previously. Since the “Little Ice Age” ended about 1850, what we essentially know is that temperatures in the last century are higher than during the little ice age (which is, ahem, why they call it an ice age.) The report says we know little about temperatures before 1600 and almost nothing before 900 (when we think we know temperatures were about the same as now—query about mass extinctions, coastal inundations etc. circa 900.) This is very big stuff, and it absolutely obliterates the claim that “most scientists” (this is the NAS) are in consensus about the GW alarmists claims. This isn’t some lone dissident out there, this is the NAS. The report itself is a consensus report, and shows they ain’t got jack, as someone above commented.

Also, read the same blogger’s commentary (or listen yourself) on the available sound transcripts of the conference relating to the report. It reveals that the “hockey stick” is now toast, among other gems. Big stuff, I think, for those interested.