Andrew Bolt: Global cooling is bad news for some

The world is now cooler than it was, on average, at the end of last century — which is bad news to those commited to scaremongering.

Here is news you will not hear on the ABC or in most classrooms in Australia, where global warming is a religion. The world is now cooler than it was, on average, at the end of last century.

Yes, cooler. Not warmer, despite decades of scaremongering about a frying planet.

Satellites from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have measured the world’s temperature since 1979.

Since December, they’ve detected a sharp cooling, and in March recorded a global temperature 0.01 degrees below the average of the last decade of the 20th century.

Note: the NOAA temperature measurements, overseen by the University of Alabama in Huntsville, are arguably the most credible in the world.

But this doesn’t mean we’re now in a period of global cooling after nearly 50 years of gentle warming.

Dr Roy Spencer, head of this UAH team, says the March temperature comes at the peak of the La Nina, an upwelling of cooler water in the oceans.

In fact, Australia hasn’t been this cool since August 2014.

Believers will argue that global warming will resume when we next get an El Nino, which brings warmer water. They’re probably right.

The world is now cooler than it was, on average, at the end of last century.

Spencer also says there is still an overall global warming trend since 1979 of 0.14C a decade,

Even so, that’s about half the warming trend predicted by the mathematical models relied on by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that has been so central in driving the global warming panic.

Just how much longer before the IPCC and all the other bureaucracies of the massive global warming industry admit that the scare was exaggerated?

Or are they too financially dependent on scaring people stupid — or too embarrassed to admit they went too far?

But the temperature is one thing. We also have not seen the climate catastrophes we were told would be our frightening future.

Instead, we’ve had fewer cyclones, not more; more rain in Australia, not less; bigger grain crops, not smaller; shrinking deserts, not growing; and Pacific islands that are three times more likely to increase than shrink.

All these things are facts. But who among the activists who scream “believe the science” want you to know them?

Just see if the ABC mentions this good, cool news about the world’s temperature.

If it doesn’t, ask yourself why.