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To: ManyMoose who wrote (23037)	10/2/2007 10:28:40 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 71588

They are both jokes. Its a satire site. the current dean complained that the average temperature at the university was five degrees warmer in the last five years Thats not global climate change, its weather. Both the fact that its only 5 years and the fact that its only at one spot make it meaningless as part of a climate change argument, even assuming his statement is correct. The earth has generally been warming since the end of the "little ice age" (started around 1250 to 1300 and ended around 1850), more generally its had an overall warming since the last real ice age. More recently its been warming since the 70s (a local cold point that caused some people to worry that we were moving towards and ice age, or at least another "little ice age"). I do buy the "the Earth is warming in part because of human emission of CO2" argument, but I think a lot of people making it sell it way to hard. They make of it a far more certain thing than it is. And in particular they present future projections largely based on computer models as if they where solid science that would only be questioned by the ignorant, the foolish, or those with an agenda. Also see windows.ucar.edu history.com Year Without a Summer astrosociety.org 1816 - The Year without a Summer dandantheweatherman.com discoverychannel.co.uk The "year without a summer" was also called "eighteen hundred and froze to death". It was in the later part of the little ice age, so temperatures where already colder than they are now, and then Tamboro's eruption cooled the earth even more. You had snow in June in the northern US and in Europe, and not just on mountain tops. en.wikipedia.org

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