See: solarcycle24.com

Sunspot activity remains at a low level, Solar wind and Magnetic flux is low and that matches the research for a solar cycle that results in cold conditions for the northern polar regions.

Also Greenhouse gases as defined by the AGW crowd, well they just plain DO NOT EXIST.

Collision processes dominate IR molecular excited state Transition Relaxation Rates by about 1,000 and quench the IR Photonic processes. Thus the pretty IR coloring book pictures [wiki] and handwaving by Algore et.al. are just a distraction.

H2O molecular band [15micron] hits 95% IR absorbance of terrestrial IR radiation by about 4″ [yes 4 inches] for high humidity conditions.

For the CO2 results, just multiply by 100 [400 inches] and get about A=95% around 33 feet. Our atmospheric IR processes are quenched at about the peak of a roof.

‘Chris’ is right. The Temperature gradient is more extreme and the weather follows suit.

Predictions of Global Cooling might be correct. But it won’t be because of NON-EXISTANT Greenhouse Gases.

Carbon and Life

-It is hard to overstate the importance of carbon; its unique capacity for forming multiple bonds and chains at low energies makes life as we know it possible, and justifies an entire major branch of chemistry – organic chemistry – dedicated to its compounds. In fact, most of the compounds known to science are carbon compounds, often called organic compounds because it was in the context of biochemistry that they were first studied in depth.

-What makes carbon so special is that every carbon atom is eager to bond with as many as four other atoms. This makes it possible for long chains and rings to be formed out of them, together with other atoms – almost always hydrogen, often oxygen, sometimes nitrogen, sulfur or halides. The study of these is the basis of organic chemistry; the compounds carbon forms with metals are generally considered inorganic. Chains and rings are fundamental to the way carbon-based life forms – that is, all known life-forms – build themselves.

-Silicon is capable of forming the same sorts of bonds and structures, but opinion is divided on whether silicon-based life forms are a realistic prospect – in part because it needs higher energies to form them, and in part because whereas carbon dioxide (one of the main by-products of respiration, a process essential to all known life) is a gas and therefore easy to remove from the body, its counterpart silicon dioxide (silica) has an inconveniently high melting point, posing a serious waste disposal problem for any would-be silicon-based life form.

I can hardly believe how quick people are to judge.

Ozmo