Global warming: Cool it

The Telegraph has yet another interesting article on global warming. Is it time to cool down the media hysteria on drowning polar bears and melting Arctic ice? Excerpts:"The earth's surface temperature is not at record levels
According to NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies analysis of surface air temperature measurements, the meteorological December 2007 to November 2008 was the coolest year since 2000. Their data has also shown that the hottest decade of the 20th century was not the 1990s but the 1930s. Ice is not disappearing
Arctic website Crysophere Today reported that Arctic ice volume was 500,000 sq km greater than this time last year. Additionally, Antarctic sea-ice this year reached its highest level since satellite records began in 1979. Polar bear numbers are also at record levels. Himalayan glaciers
A report by the UN Environment Program this year claimed that the cause of melting glaciers in the Himalayas was not global warming but the local warming effect of a vast "atmospheric brown cloud" over that region, made up of soot particles from Asia's dramatically increased burning of fossil fuels and deforestation. Temperatures are still dropping
NASA satellite readings on global temperatures from the University of Alabama show that August was the fourth month this year when temperatures fell below their 30-year average, i.e. since satellite records began. November 2008 in the USA was only the 39th warmest since records began 113 years ago." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/
globalwarming/4029837/
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