"Satellites show energy being lost while climate models show energy still being gained," said Spencer.
In other words, the greenhouse effect, key to the alarmists' claims that man's carbon dioxide emissions are forcing the planet temperatures to dangerous highs, is weak.
Astronomers at the U.S. National Solar Observatory believe that Earth could be moving into a cooling period due to an unexpected coming break in the sunspot cycle. Research at the Air Force Research Laboratory confirms the sunspot observation.
With solar activity in "hibernation," it's possible we could have another era like the Maunder Minimum. During this period, from 1645 to 1715, sunspots were uncommon and temperatures fell. Rivers that were normally free of ice froze, according to NASA, and snow remained year round at latitudes in which that isn't generally the case.
Scientists aren't predicting that we're moving into a another Little Ice Age due to a replay of the Maunder Minimum. But some are warning that colder temperatures are ahead. There is research which shows that solar activity has a much stronger effect on climate than man's CO2 emissions.
None of this means we've heard the last of the global warming alarmists. They won't easily abandon their campaign to manage everyone else's affairs in the name of the environment.
They don't have much time left, though. Reality keeps poking big holes in their story.