Significant data.
Normal fluctuations yet ignored by the global warming folks.
Very minor changes in the Sun have a tremendous impact on the Earth. This is common sense and every student of introductory Science should know this. Yet . . .

My skepticism of government controlled science originated years ago when I worked for NASA. I was manager of a project to measure the transport rate of CFC's from the surface to the upper atmosphere. We used high altitude aircraft and balloons with sensors specifically designed to collect and measure halogen free radicals and compounds. CFC catalysis of ozone is well understood and is easily demonstrated in the laboratory. It was our task to measure CFC and other halogen transport rates and to demonstrate that these compounds were directly responsible for ozone depletion. Please note that I said "demonstrate that" not "determine if". Taking such factors as Jeans atmospheric escape of selected molecular species into account we constructed models of transport flux that would be necessary for CFC catalysis to be the dominant mechanism in the ozone depletion phenomenon. The problem was that we never measured more than five percent of the molecular flux that would be necessary to sustain catalysis. It is possible that our models were incorrect and they were certainly incomplete but the results were so completely at variance with the intended outcome of the study that our findings were embargoed indefinitely and funding for our project was abruptly canceled. I retired from NASA shortly after this event and went into private industry.

My point is that there are political forces that understand how to use science to their advantage and many scientists, my self included, were and are sufficiently naive that we become unwitting accomplices to their agendas.

AGW or ACC (anthropogenic climate change if you wish) is a horrendously complex phenomenon and may well portend a planet wide catastrophe. But as one of our politicians observed "never let a disaster go to waste". Nothing fuels a drive for political power more than a clear and present danger and a promise to deal with it. AGW can be presented as such a danger and this fact is not lost on those who see an opportunity to turn it to political advantage.

All I am saying is be careful what you wish for.

If this happens we need to start producing more CO2 immediately to counteract the cooling period or we might all die from cold!!!

Good find Nickursis.

Break out the parkas. The cooling bill will soon become the heating bill.We Floridians will love our new moderate climate.

The Thermosphere Climate Index shows lower highs and lower lows since 1990 and lower lows since the late 1970s. I lived through some of those lows in North Dakota. Weeks of 40 below zero Fahrenheit with winds to match. All GW proponents need to be shipped to Churchill, Manitoba for the next 20 years!!!