It is now settled science that anthropogenic global warming is imminent.  So I was surprised to read, in the May 1, 2008 edition of the highly respected scientific journal Nature: “Antarctica’s deep ocean waters are getting colder after years of warming,” and in the very same issue “… global surface temperature may not increase over the next decade, as natural climate variations in the North Atlantic and tropical Pacific temporarily offset the projected anthropogenic warming.” What does it all mean?  I need to develop a Weltanschauung.  Let’s see....a hudna is 10 years; the meridional overturning circulation (whatever that is) will weaken over the next 10 years; a sunspot cycle is just over 10 years; the Pacific Decadal Oscillation ...anyone see a pattern here?  Has Gaia declared a hudna? As Yogi Berra said, “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” This is especially true when one states categorically that a certain outcome is inevitable.  Marx was almost certainly wrong about the collapse of the bourgeoisie; we can only hope that Mohammed was wrong about the universal Caliphate, and there is some recent suggestion that Al Gore was wrong about an imminent global warming catastrophe. Maybe we should all declare a hudna regarding predictions.