Bad News Days

So what is is about newspapers, rolling TV news and other media that
make them want to outdo each other in the bad news stakes? We get
erroneous headlines "80,000 jobs lost in one day". Where has this
disaster happened?

Worldwide!!

Now, please correct me if I'm wrong, but the comments I hear coming out
of China seem to be telling me that they may be losing 80,000 jobs a day
in China alone, without any help from our crippled companies. Besides I
would assume that the 80,000 are the publicly announced job cuts from
large corporations, ignoring the little guys who may be laying off 1 or
2 people.

But the thing that really annoys me is that the 80,000 is presented as a
hard fact, if you are person 80,001, you will be safe, but God help you
if you are number 79,999.

Note to all media outlets, Present "facts" not hearsay presented as
facts. If a figure is approximate, say it's approximate, you can even
say a figure is expected to be higher or, heaven forbid if it's good
news, lower. People are not stupid, they can see when a "fact" is is
not a fact. All it does is encourage a counter culture where people do
not believe the Main Stream Media, because all they peddle are lies

The year the Glaciers Grew??

So here we are at the start of 2009, OK already almost 12% through the year, but, Temperatures are down, worldwide. Forget the idea that ice is melting, this year, look at facts, not hearsay. So why do I think the "Global Warmers" have got it wrong?

Some facts

1) we are at the end of a solar cycle, the "Little Ice Age" happened at the Maunder Minimum where there were very few sunspots for a period of over 60 years.
2) The other known time of temperature decreases was the Dalton Minimum, which although nowhere near as long or as strong as the Maunder minimum did produce an overall decrease in world temperature.
3) The sun appears too have "switched off", see this graph from the excellent wattsupwiththat notice the drop in activity in 2005, given it seems that a 3 year gap translates to a cooling, we are well on our way.
4) An unprecedented, at least in the last 35 years, Stratospheric warming is indicative of further cooling to come for the Northern hemisphere during this winter
5) The PDO (Pacific Decadal Oscillation) looks as though it will be negative for 2009, again leading to an overall decrease in temperature.
6) El Nino is the past, La Nina seems to be the dominant process for 2009 as it was for 2008.
7) Despite all the Global Warmers comments, the Antarctic, as a continent is gettingt colder, NOT warmer and ice is accumulating in greater quantities rather than not forming during the Antarctic winter

Add these facts together and what do you have? Global cooling to a point that will arrest, overall, the retreat of glaciers worldwide. Ther may still be some areas on the planet that get warmer, but overall, cooler is the trend and a miniscule change in global temepreature will be enough to stop the retreat