CURRENTS: "The Earth Cools, and Fight Over Warming Heats Up: Many Scientists Say Temperature Drop From Recent Record Highs Is a Blip, While a Few See a Trend; Inexact Climate Models," by Jeffrey Ball, Wall Street Journal, 30 October 2009.

The upshot of this debate: everyone is coming to recognize just how much swag there is in these climate models.

No, a few years of cooling doesn't negate global warming, the long-term trend, but just like with the sudden drop in global oil demand challenging previous projections, we are reminded to go easy on the hyperbole and fear-mongering.