jaywild,
I didn't make any scientific statements; there was nothing, really, that "needed to be addressed" with such a comical stern attitude of a Komsomol apparatchik chastising a wayward dissident.
I remember that one of the 1950s years was proclaimed an International Year of the Quiet Sun (Russians even issued a set of two stamps for the occasion), because there was no sunspots. I also remember that during the 1960s and the first half of the 1970s Siberian winters were extremely cold even for Siberia. Going to school while temperature dropped to minus 40 outside was a normal everyday routine. In the 1980s winters became warmer. Is there scientific connection? I don't know. I am no more a scientist than Al Gore.
At the moment, we are at the prolonged Solar minimum, there is no "new cycle" (non-equatorial) sunspots for more than 20 months. Something drastic happened with the Sun in October 2005, when a level of its magnetic activity dropped sharply, in a step-like fashion, and didn't return to the previous level ever since. All NASA scientists' predictions about the time of the beginning of the new solar cycle have failed so far.
If one believes that solar activity is the main factor driving climate change (as I do, and as at least some climatologists do), then we are facing several years of unusually cold weather, and 2007 was the first of these years.
If one believes in AGW dogma, nothing will change his mind -- he would blame a century of freezing cold, as well as any other natural event or catastrophe, on "global warming."
AGW is not a scientific theory, it is a politically, ideologically motivated drivel. It is very profitable for scientists who don't criticize it (approx. $60 billion went into AGW funding, vs. approx. $50 million spent by organizations trying to stop the spread of this most dangerous prejudice).
As to the open letter vs. "clandestine communications" used by the KGB to send signals to its agents, you are wrong. My hypothesis about that Soviet cover is a pure speculation, of course. But in situations where prearranged codes exist, all intelligence services use open communications (email these days) to deliver messages to spies. It's the cheapest, and the most convenient way, very reliable if the recipient knows his codes, and is not a double agent. Any "clandestine" activity attracts much more attention than a coded message in an outwardly harmless letter.
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