Barack Obama NSA

President Barack Obama

(AP File Photo | CHARLES DHARAPAK)

Year 2013 closed as another disaster for the manmade (anthropogenic) global warming alarmists. Earth continues closing in on two decades with no warming. The spectacular failure of the AGW climate models to match real-world experience demonstrates their uselessness in guiding climate policy. Serious research in the U.S., Germany and Russia anticipates Earth’s temperatures cooling to depths not seen since the Little Ice Age and possibly lasting for decades or centuries.

Global sea ice is above average with a strong upward trend. The number of tornadoes (which we’ve been counting since about 1950), has trended downward with 2013 being a record low. No major hurricane (Category 3 or higher) has struck the U.S. in more than eight years — a record for the past century and a half. Oceans still rise at only 2 to 3 millimeters per year just as they have for centuries. The list goes on.

Australia voted its AGW administration out of office and began removing its crippling CO2 regulations. Canada, Japan, Russia, Great Britain and Germany have clearly signaled waning enthusiasm to continue the AGW crusade. And China, by far the largest CO2 emitter, has laid out plans for a massive expansion of coal-fired power plants.

Congress has periodically considered and correctly rejected passing global warming laws. Undaunted, President Obama recently reaffirmed his contempt for Congress, the Constitution and the rule of law repeating that he will issue orders as he pleases.

Imperial presidents such as Obama have historically devastated their countries. America is headed down that same road.

JAMES M. POLICELLI

Plainfield Township