You know it just keeps bugging me that "global warming" has been on hold now for a decade.  Seriously an entire decade while everyone rambles on endlessly about how terrible the dangers are, how there's no question that CO2 emissions are driving up the temperatures...when the temperatures didn't go up.  In fact, they've DROPPED in the past few years.  Now of course...the guys that are getting all the media attention are blabbering on about it merely being a natural variation compensating for man's emissions.  Well...since the southern hemisphere had the coldest winter in a lifetime and since a lot of northern hemisphere temperatures are also showing signs of further drops, I think that's probably not the case.  I think the sun's behavior (dismissed as unimportant by the IPCC) is actually responsible for the bulk of the changes.  I think we're at a point when this is going to become obvious...and I think the halt to warming and the drop are probably the reason the fuckers found it necessary to FALSIFY THE DATA.  Seriously, look at their old chart (a rather inconvenient chart since temperatures were actually equally warm half a century ago)

Gee, for some reason the 1999 graph (left) had to be "adjusted" and for some reason the older temperatures were adjusted down, the more recent ones were adjusted up (2007 graph on right).  Suddenly the 1990's were a whole degree hotter than the 1930's.

Again, PERSONALLY, I tend to notice some rough correlations between solar activity and global temperatures.  Granted, it's a little flippy, but you have to remember that the sunspots don't show up immediately so the activity that causes the sunspots or that the sunspots cause...may not show up for a while.  Sunspots are simply the only detailed record we have of activity.  I superimposed the graph of sunspot activity over the 1999 temperature graph (the one I'm guessing is more correct)

Note, solar activity plumets...so does the temperature.  The Medieval warm period and the "little ice age" also (from what we can work out about sunspots during that time) seem to fit right in...as well as a period called the Dalton Minimum in the early 1800's.  Anyway, bottom line, the sun's activity has fallen recently...and the temperature is dropping.  Hmmmm