So why’s the stratosphere cooling off?
We're having global cooling.
Dear Al Gore: Please Send Us Some More of That “Global Warming”
The severe winter weather over the last several years is due to global cooling, not warming.
New Sunspots Could Produce Space Storms
The sun has been relatively quiet the past two years. It's at the low point in a known 11-year cycle of activity. The next peak of activity is expected sometime in 2013. The ability to predict how strong the next peak will be, or when any given storm will strike as activity ramps up in the coming months, remains iffy.
Figure in Milankovitch Cycles and assorted oceanic perturbations like the PDO, etc. The precautionary principle is a recipe for economic ruin, IMHO, especially when the climate models are so deficient.