Here Comes the Sun (Not!)

Those crazy Canucks are at it again folks. Never ones to go along with the status quo I guess.

While everyone else is losing sleep over the supposed catastrophic effects of global warming, these scientists are genuinely worried about the next ice age...Really. Check this out:

The Sun Also Sets

Although I have a feeling they might have quite a bit trouble getting funding for this study, since everyone knows that the big money is in pushing the whole meltdown scenario. Perhaps they never got their new copy of Time magazine or Newsweek (Guys, the new tag line is "warming" not "cooling." Did you not get the memo?). And here's just a sample of their heresy...

"Canadian scientists are seeking additional funding for more and better "eyes" with which to observe our sun, which has a bigger impact on Earth's climate than all the tailpipes and smokestacks on our planet combined."

What! Are you insinuating that we aren't the center of the universe!? Was Barbara Streisand wrong? How dare you utter such words!

No seriously. Who would have guessed... that little ball of fire in the sky has a lot to do with the weather and climate and just everything else on our planet.

And what about this...

R. Timothy Patterson, professor of geology and director of the Ottawa-Carleton Geoscience Center of Canada's Carleton University, says that "CO2 variations show little correlation with our planet's climate on long, medium and even short time scales."

Imagine someone who has cancer worrying about an ingrown toe-nail and I think you'll understand what I mean.