The real issue here is that much of the scientific and political (liberal) establishments put all their eggs in the global warming basket. Now that global warming (re-named global climate change) has been shown to be a bust, there needs to be some new crisis to continue the money momentum that was gained through United Nations initiatives. Literally, the transfer of billions to trillions of dollars, and all the centralized power that comes from having access to that level of money, is at stake and the powers that are manipulating data and consensus to that effect will not roll over and play dead just because our world is now inconveniently cooling instead of heating.
I recommend that anyone interested in the "dimming" issue check out the minimum sunspot activity for close to a decade. In 1645-1715 there was a decided lack of sunspot activity, the Maunder Minimum (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maunder_Minimum) and that era came to be known as the "Little Ice Age." (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age)
Global temperatures were radically impacted and areas froze, crops failed, etc., mostly due to conditions far beyond the reach of human beings to effect. We have seen somewhat a replay, though on a lesser scale, in the time since 1995, when temps started dropping once again.
So, at the end of the day, which is it? Is all the carbon and greenhouse gas in the atmosphere warming up the planet or causing it to cool? Seems that no one can really make up their mind... :wavey: Perhaps God (GASP!) is in control and the planet has some created and built-in temperature regulation mechanisms that keep it very nicely in the precise narrow livable range.