Given the current climate state, if a significant global cooling trend were to ensue, absent any detectable changes in major ocean circulation patterns, that would completely counter any current global warming predictions.
Disengenuous; how long do you suppose would it take for a dedicated decrease in global temperatures detectable at all levels before somebody was able to convince the crusaders that they just may be wrong?
1998 seems to be a peak year in the agreed upon warming trend and since then we have been a bit cooler and then a bit closer to warmer and back and forth for almost nine years now and the band plays on.
There is a political paradigm being created right now and some really big players want to cash in while the fervor is fully pitched; nothing short of Hell freezing over will shut these folks up.