Hear that trumpet call? It's New Scientist magazine sounding "Retreat!" on global warming, like Custer's cavalry when all those screaming Sioux warriors came charging over the hill. Charge!! Backward!  With NASA suddenly erasing that magical 0.15 degrees (C) of temperature jump in 1998, the upward trend of surface warming, once the staple of Global Warming alarmism, has been totally erased. Nineteen thirty-four, of Dust Bowl fame, is now the hottest year on record. NASA is trying to pretend it is just a trivial change. They are wrong.New Scientist has now scrambled into the back-up trenches (mostly created by the British Global Warming crowd, I'll bet). It's just that Global Warming is being masked. So we can't observe it, naturally, but underneath all those hundreds of contending physical variables, it's still creeping up on us! It's just hidden Global Warming! Writes New Scientist: "'Cool farms' mask the extent of global warming."14 August 2007"You've...(Read Full Post)