Global Warming over until 2015.

You might not hear it from Al Gore or his followers or even the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, but apparently it's been determined that the 'consensus' position on the 'settled' science was wrong.

( As I've been saying for months now ... )

According to the UK Telegraph:

"Global warming will stop until at least 2015 because of natural variations in the climate, scientists have said. Researchers studying long-term changes in sea temperatures said they now expect a 'lull' for up to a decade while natural variations in climate cancel out the increases caused by man-made greenhouse gas emissions.

"The average temperature of the sea around Europe and North America is expected to cool slightly over the decade while the tropical Pacific remains unchanged. This would mean that the 0.3°C global average temperature rise which has been predicted for the next decade by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change may not happen, according to the paper published in the scientific journal Nature."

The cause?

First, the regular and predictable change in the Pacific ocean currents known as the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) are bringing cooler temperatures.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory confirmed it a few days ago:

"The shift in the PDO can have significant implications for global climate, affecting Pacific and Atlantic hurricane activity, droughts and flooding around the Pacific basin, the productivity of marine ecosystems, and global land temperature patterns."

In the recent past, these changes have lasted anywhere from a few years to a few decades, and a quick review of the last century or so reveals that we're 'due' for a multi-decade shift similar to what was experieced in the 50s, 60s, and 70s -- which lead to Global Cooling becoming the major climatological concern.

- Source: Steven Hare, University of Washington

Now, while the PDO shift is a perfectly normal climatological phenomenon that has already been acknowledged to have put a halt to Global Warming for the near future, when you add in the fact that we still haven't had any significant sunspot activity and we're looking at conditions that project for an extended period of Global Cooling, not the catastrophic warming that Al Gore and the IPCC predicted ...

Flailing campaigns and flying pigs.

No one can argue that Obama displayed anything even remotely resembling leadership in his delayed decision to throw his 'spiritual mentor', Jeremiah Wright, under the bus. But, that doesn't matter now because he's made the split, right?

Wrong.

In his speech, he praised his new pastor, Rev. Otis Moss.

You know, the new pastor--the young pastor, Rev. Otis Moss, is a wonderful young pastor. And as I said, I still very much value the Trinity community. This--I'll be honest, this obviously has put strains on that relationship, not because of the members or because of Rev. Moss but because this has become such a spectacle.

The problem is, Moss preaches the same divisive sorts of things that Wright did. His Easter sermon was a defense of Wright that analogized Wright to Christ titled "How to Handle a Public Lynching."

Beyond that, Wright's not taking the rejection well. Which means that he's sure to continue appearing at times that are particularly inconvenient for Obama. And, he's not being shy about calling 'Bullsh-tuff' on Barack's assertion that he didn't know what kinds of things Wright believed.

From the New York Post:

"After 20 years of loving Barack like he was a member of his own family, for Jeremiah to see Barack saying over and over that he didn't know about Jeremiah's views during those years, that he wasn't familiar with what Jeremiah had said, that he may have missed church on this day or that and didn't hear what Jeremiah said, this is seen by Jeremiah as nonsense and betrayal," said the source, who has deep roots in Wright's Chicago community and is familiar with his thinking on the matter.

So, what was it that finally got Barack mad enough to reject his pastor and friend?

The New York Times has the answer:

"Whatever relationship I had with Reverend Wright has changed as a consequence of this," Mr. Obama said Tuesday. "I don't think that he showed much concern for me. More importantly, I don't think he showed much concern for what we're trying to do in this campaign and what we're trying to do for the American people."

Look at his order of priorities.

1. Himself,
2. His campaign, and then
3. The American people.

Obama was upset because Wright didn't show any concern for him or his campaign. Wright is upset because Obama didn't show much concern for him or his church. These two narcissistic blowhards deserve each other.

Meanwhile, in other news, the people who put together the Coachella Music Festival in California have put out a $10,000 reward and four free tickets for life for the safe return of a giant, flying pig.

Have you seen this pig? It's huge, inflatable, features the word "Obama" and it has lost its way ...

As tall as a two-story house and as wide as two school buses, the pig was led from lines held on the ground Sunday as Waters played a version of Pink Floyd's "Pigs" from the 1977 album "Animals." Then it just floated away.

"It wasn't really supposed to happen that way. I don't have the details," Rondan told The Associated Press.

As for safety concerns, Rondan speculated, "Because it's inflatable, as it loses air it becomes less and less dangerous."

Perhaps it's just me, but the flying Obama pig sounds a lot like the flailing Obama campaign ...

Barack Obama throws Rev. Jeremiah Wright under the bus.

After Rev. Jeremiah Wright made several appearances over the weekend, Obama suddenly found the courage to disown the 'crazy uncle' that he 'could no more disown than he could disown the black community.'

Wright said, among other things:

You cannot do terrorism on other people and expect it never to come back on you.

That fits right in line with what Wright said in a speech at his church.

We say that God will bless the shock and awe as we take over unilaterally another country, calling it a coalition because we got three days from Australia going against the United Nations, going against the majority of Christians, Muslims and Jews throughout the world, making a preemptive strike in the name of God. We cannot see how the same thing we are doing is the same thing Al-Qaeda is doing under a different color flag calling on the name of a different God to sanction and approve our murder and our mayhem!

So, clearly, this is the sort of thing he says -- and preached from the pulpit -- a lot.

He went on to defend Louis Farrakhan, saying:

"Louis Farrakhan is not my enemy. He did not put me in chains, he did not put me in slavery, and he didn't make me this colour."

As an aside, I'm not entirely certain but I a good argument could be made that either his parents or God made him that 'colour'. Would that make both God and his parents his enemies ... ?

He then went on to say (as we previously pointed out) that Obama hadn't actually denounced himself from Wright or his statements:

"Politicians say what they say and do what they do because of electability. He has to distance himself because he's a politician ... Whether he gets elected or not, I'm still going to have to be answerable to God."

In other words, "Barack 'distanced' himself from me because politics demanded it. He still believes every word I've said and his refusal to denounce my statements proves it."

Holding a press conference to attempt to do the damage Wright piled onto his campaign during his weekend appearances with Bill Moyers, at the NAACP meeting in Detroit, and at the National Press Club over the weekend, Barack said of Wright:

"I’m outraged by the comments that were made and saddened by the spectacle. The person that I saw yesterday was not the person I met 20 years ago. His comments were not only divisive and destructive, but they end up giving comfort to those who prey on hate. I believe they do not accurately portray the perspective of the black church. They certainly don’t portray mine. If he considers this political posturing, then he doesn’t know me very well. And I don’t know him well either."

Uh, maybe it's just me, but if Wright's comments yesterday were 'not only divisive and destructive, but end up giving comfort to those who prey on hate', I guess I can't see how they're all that much different than what he's been saying for the 20 years Barack has known him ...

On the Wright's idea that the U.S. government created AIDS to kill blacks, Obama said:

"Ridiculous proposition."

On Wright's statement that American soldiers were the same as al-Qaeda:

"They offend me. They rightly offend all Americans. They should be denounced. And that’s what I’m doing clearly and unequivocally here today."

There are a couple of things that struck me about the press conference.

First, Barack's statements seem to imply that it isn't the same recycled "hate America" garbage that Rev. Wright spewed during his weekend appearances that finally got Barack mad, it was his insults against Barack himself.

Second, Barack's statement that he Wright's appearances over the weekend, saying that same recycled crap, was 'not the person that I'd come to know over 20 years' and that it 'shocked' and 'suprised' him should tell you everything you need to know about Barack's judgment.