Dear Reader: Here is another great editorial from Investors Business Daily on why we should question anyone who believes that the Earth is warming and that we are responsible for that warming….. Libertyman.

Everything’s Cool

According to DailyTech blogger Michael Asher, “Thanks to a rapid rebound in recent months, global sea ice levels now equal those seen 29 years ago, when the year 1979 also drew to a close.” This isn’t Asher’s opinion, but fact based on data from the University of Illinois’ Arctic Climate Research Center.

News about growing sea ice isn’t exactly what environmentalists who predicted the North Pole would be free of ice in 2008 want to hear. Al Gore and his fellow alarmists have been telling us for years that melting sea ice and glaciers will dramatically and dangerously increase sea levels.

In his 2006 movie “An Inconvenient Truth,” he needlessly stoked fear by claiming that global warming could cause sea levels to rise 20 feet “in the near future.”

It was one of three dozen misstatements made in the Oscar-winning propaganda film that was promoted as a serious scientific documentary.

We would expect global warmongers to note, as Asher did, that because sea ice freely floats around the oceans, it has no effect on sea level.

(Unless, of course, the sea ice is melting. When that makes the news, the public is barraged with stories about how selfish humans are destroying their own planet as well as the critical habitats of many beloved animals.)

As Asher explains, “Sea ice responds much faster to changes in temperature or precipitation and is therefore a useful barometer of changing conditions.”

Could the unexpected increase in sea ice, then, be a signal that the Earth is cooling? We can’t say with any degree of certainty. But then, neither can the alarmists argue with any measure of assurance that man is causing the planet to warm.

Yet they say it anyway, as they tar skeptics as flat-earthers who reject science and contend that the debate is over. And indeed in one sense it is, because the alarmists have declared the case closed and refuse to discuss the matter with opponents.

Gore, for example, incessantly lectures believers in friendly settings. He has turned down at least three invitations to debate his theories.

That seems to be OK with his followers, but his refusal to emerge from his protective cocoon and face skeptics speaks louder than all the tedious hectoring he’s done on the subject over the years.