Climate Narrative Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes Duane Patterson

By the mid-teens of the new century, due to the fact that the Earth wasn't boiling over fast or severe enough to keep up with the prophets of doom predicting global apocalypse, the narrative had to shift again.

• It wasn't cooling, and it wasn't really warming up all that much, so the term 'climate change' evolved as the preferred term of art...

Yesterday, The Guardian came out with this news - the climate isn't really changing much at all.

The melting of sea ice in the Arctic has slowed dramatically in the past 20 years, scientists have reported, with no statistically significant decline in its extent since 2005. 

The finding is surprising, the researchers say, given that carbon emissions from fossil fuel burning have continued to rise and trap ever more heat over that time. 

They said natural variations in ocean currents that limit ice melting had probably balanced out the continuing rise in global temperatures. However, they said this was only a temporary reprieve and melting was highly likely to start again at about double the long-term rate at some point in the next five to 10 years...