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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread

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To: longnshort who wrote (7680)10/15/2006 1:18:44 PM
From: Wharf Rat  Read Replies (2) of 36917
 
"Many studies peg the rise in the earth's average temperature since 1880 at 1 degree, making it the warmest it has been in the last 400 years."...

Ice. A rectal thermometer in da world's ice hole. And more.

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In June, the National Research Council, a review panel of top U.S. scientists, concluded that evidence from tree rings, ice cores, retreating glaciers and many other "proxies" of temperatures of the past show the last few decades were the warmest in centuries. Though less detailed and more regional, the warming trend also is apparent in Utah.
Even the most stalwart critics now concur that the Earth is warming. In the Wall Street Journal last month, Richard S. Lindzen, the outspoken Massachusetts Institute of Technology meteorologist, noted that carbon levels are also increasing and that carbon is one likely culprit in the warming of the planet.
sltrib.com
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