Evidence continues to mount that natural variations in climate dynamics -- particularly solar activity and sea surface temperatures -- are primarily if not wholly responsible for global temperature anomalies. In fact, the absence of warming since 1998 and the current atypically sustained period of dormant solar activity have many researchers predicting another minor ice age may be looming - or already upon us.
"Reduced solar activity also leads to the cooling of Earth's upper atmosphere and if Earth's upper atmosphere is cooler then there is less drag up there on satellites and this means we are left with much more debris up there - which is also something astronauts have to look out for."
Some researchers have attempted to link the intensity of cosmic rays at Earth to cloudiness and climate change. Current conditions may be a good opportunity to test these ideas further.
In particular, the Justice Department should investigate whether Lehman Brothers involvement in the carbon credit scheme of Al Gore et. al. played a role in its fall. Veteran Meteorologist John Coleman has called global warming the greatest fraud in history. Carbon credits are one of the ways the perpetrators of that fraud plan to make money of the fictional crisis.