Although the global warming panic of the last twenty years has been a wasteful distraction for humanity, it has, thankfully, served one good purpose…. As a consequence, decades of discovery have been shortened into just a few years. Without the outside interest … humanity would be sleepwalking into the very disruptive cooling that will be caused by Solar Cycles 24 and 25 … to at least 2040.”

David Archibald, The Twilight of Abundance [i]

Last October, CNN meteorologist Allison Chinchar wrote a piece titled “Antarctica’s last 6 months were the coldest on record.”[iii] Last February, as if to paint an entirely different picture, The Scientific American offered the headline, “Sea Ice Around Antarctic Reaches a Record Low.” [iv] This, they claimed, was due to a combination of factors – the leading one, of course, was anthropogenic (man-caused) global warming. The article misleads the reader by suggesting the Antarctic is warming. Nothing was said about the actual state of affairs. “At the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, located on the highest plateau of Antarctica, average temperatures from April to September, the continent’s winter months, fell all the way down to 78 degrees below zero Fahrenheit….” [v] And now, last month, temperatures have hit all-time record lows. Last April 14 the world’s lowest temperature was recorded at Vostok Station – 106.2 degrees Farhenheit.[vi]