Email Tom Toles at Washpo

Hi Tom: I am sure you have seen this before but in case you are unaware below is some info on current climate that can be independently verified from government organizations like NOAA and NSIDC among others. Change is what the climate does. Always has and always will. You might like to remind yourself about past extreme weather events by going here and checking them out. No need to get your tail in a knot. It is important to realize that there are people with an agenda who like to peddle FEAR with GUILT cast in a secondary role in order to manipulate public opinion so that their agenda can be more easily accomplished. As your great journalist H.L. Mencken once said: "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed — and hence clamorous to be led to safety — by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

What's the agenda you ask? Here it is in a nutshell.

"In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill....All these dangers are caused by human intervention....and thus the “real enemy, then, is humanity itself....believe humanity requires a common motivation, namely a common adversary in order to realize world government. It does not matter if this common enemy is “a real one or….one invented for the purpose." ~ Club of Rome

Pinky: Gee, Brain, what do you want to do tonight?
Brain: Same thing we do every night, Pinky - try to take over the world.

• Global temperatures in 2012 are right at the satellite era mean.
• Sea ice area is right at the satellite era mean
• Satellites show that sea level hasn’t risen for several years
• Seven years without a major hurricane strike in the US – the longest period on record
• Seven years without a hurricane strike in Florida – the longest period on record
• No long term trend in severe tornadoes
• Drought at historic lows in Australia
• US drought area below the long term mean
• Polar bear populations flourishing
• No long term trend in snow cover

Don't panic, Tom. Take a deep breath. The doomsayers haven't got one right yet!

Sincerely,

Len

Whenever you take a breath thank a tree,

Fed by CO2 exhaled from you and me.

And in the end, it is not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Wherever you go, there you are. Happiness is an inside job.