I agree with your points, however lets assume the theory in this threads article and the NASA prediction for a historically weak Solar Cycle 25 and now weak prediction for Solar Cycle 24 ring true. The AGW extremists are eventually going to look ridiculous and clown-like running around telling the world that we have to lower the mean temperature of the Earth while everyone is freezing during winter time. Its possible that the Thames could freeze again sometime in 2017-2020. We are already seeing the cooling beginning in the Southern Hemisphere. It should start this winter in the Northern Hemisphere. This winter could be cold, late and lead to a cool spring and mild summer followed by a very cold 2008-2009 winter in the Northern Hemisphere. The 2008 winter in the Southern Hemisphere could be very cold. Now Solar Cycle 24 should begin soon and if it has at least an almost average activity rate it could cause 2010-2013 to stay mild, but 2016-2020 looks to be deadly cold. That is if these solar activity predictions ring true.
Good point - Let them hoist their own petard.
Note:
1971 - 1998 (27 years) showed a steadily rising temperature of about .5 degree C - from the AGW’s chosen “zero” at the half-century’s low point. (High’s at 1935-1940, low’s at 1900 and 1971-75, high’s again at 1995-1998.)
1998 (an El Nino year) was extremely high, but temp’s have been basically stable since then = a nine year period of statistically stable (non-rising) flat temperatures.
CO2 is continuously rising the entire 72 years (1935 - 2007), but temperatures have increased ONLY for 27 years of the past 72: Not by itself a very good indication of any relationship. Yet nobody mentions this.